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SubjectRe: forceful unmount
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 08:04:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Why does LInux not support forceful unmount of file systems? Other
> > Operating systems
> > do support this feature; whenever they forcefully unmount a fs, they bother to
>
> man fuser , and for NFS we support umount -f for those cases where the NFS
> server chokes, explodes or otherwises renders itself non-optimal
>

Sorry to apear somewhat nit-picking: but that seems not to be the case.
I have a kernel who claims to support this, i have a mount which claims to
support this compiled against said kernel. When i try "umount -f" on
a NFS volume i simply get the message that it is not supported.

Dominik Kubla
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