Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:24:55 +0100 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002 |
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:43:00PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > Merged: Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups. > > Ready: switch to ->get_super() as primary file_system_type method. > > Ready: ->getattr() handling and changes of ->setattr()/->permission() > > prototypes. > > Pending: proper UFS fixes, ext2 cleanups and locking > > changes. > > Pending: per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts and unionfs. > > Pending: lifting limitations on mount(2) > > In progress: killing kdev_t for block devices (switch to struct block_device *) > > Started: UMSDOS rewrite (the damn thing blocks struct inode trimming) > > Planned: new mount API. > > All this seems very neat. One question: what about forced umount / forced > remount readonly stuff? Any plans on that? >
That would be *very* nice indeed. Even if it was only for things like NFS and SMBFS.
And even if it is unsafe - it's a lot better to be able to say "screw those pending writes", than to have to say "screw the pending writes by rebooting the system".
Just my 0.02 Euro
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