Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: umount failure | Date | Wed, 20 May 1998 01:30:06 +0200 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU said: > Shouldn't it be possible to do a forced umount (at worst a forced > "mount -o remount,ro") during shutdown ?
> Is there a fundamental reason why this cannot be done ? Doesn't > `revoke' have to solve the same difficulties ?
As does Magic-SysRq-U, to a certain extent. Between them, they should provide the majority of the code we need to implement a forced unmount.
However, we might need to add a new syscall for it. umount(2) currently only takes a single argument: the name of the device/filesystem to be unmounted.
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