Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: getting Linux into business.. | Date | Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:03:48 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <9608210930.ZM14969@aib.com>, "Eric Youngdale" <eric@aib.com> writes: > > I am wondering whether umount should be made more robust so that > it essentially forks prior to each unmount attempt. When all the children > have died we know that everything is unmounted, and we can proceed. If > one of the umounts hangs, then at least all of the remaining partitions > are cleanly unmounted.
Something like that would probably be a good idea.
int try = 0; do { /* try to unmount, return success or ENOENT or whatever */ sleep(++try); } while(1);
> If some NFS partition cannot be unmounted, can we still force the > root partition back to R/O status so that it is also marked clean? > Yes.
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