Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:12:31 +0200 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: fmount system call |
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> Besides ncpmounting novell server and not umounting it is enough > sabotage, already. Novell server will of course crash / be rebooted > soon. And linux can not handle _that_. What about making linux support > some kind of force unmount?
That would be the BSD style null file system. You go through all files that are open on a mount point, and replace the file and inode operation with 'null' operations. Any future system call on one of the files will return ENOFILE or something. Future page-ins on the file will result in bus errors, or segmentation violations. Before modifying the method table pointers, you probably have to give the file system a chance to clean-up.
I believe this is a very valuable feature, and should be implemented.
Regards, Martin
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