Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 12:41:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: umount failure |
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.
It looks like somebody planned this:
[sroot@blue:/root]# umount -f umount: forced umount not supported yet
Simon-
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