Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:39:12 -0600 | From | "Mike Smullin" <> | Subject | Re: Solve the problem that umount will fail when an opened file isn't closed |
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Thanks for that, Jan. What a great idea!
> >I have implemented an auto-mount & auto-umount > facility based on USB > >hotplug.
Colin can you explain how you implemented this? I would like to try it, too.
Thanks, Mike
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--- Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > > >Hi all, > >I have implemented an auto-mount & auto-umount > facility based on USB > >hotplug. > >An annoying problem will occur when some process > doesn't close its open file > >and auto-umount is trying to umount that mount > point after usb disk has been > >unplugged. > >Is there any way to force it to be umounted in this > situation? > > > > fs/super.c: > > /* Forget any remaining inodes */ > if (invalidate_inodes(sb)) { > printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of > %s. " > "Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice > day...\n", > sb->s_id); > } > > That's what happens if you eject a CD. The box won't > explode though. > > > Jan Engelhardt > -- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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