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From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
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To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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Rob Landley writes:
 > On Saturday 12 October 2002 06:03 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
 > > Rob Landley wrote:
 > > >I'm also looking for an "unmount --force" option that works on something
 > > >other than NFS.  Close all active filehandles (the programs using it can
 > > > just deal with EBADF or whatever), flush the buffers to disk, and
 > > > unmount.  None of this "oh I can't do that, you have a zombie process
 > > > with an open file...", I want  "guillotine this filesystem pronto,
 > > > capice?" behavior.
 > >
 > > This sounds useful.  It would be nice if umount prompted you rather than
 > > refusing.
 > 
 > The problem here is that umount(2) doesn't take a flag.  I'd be happy to have 
 > it fail unless called with the WITH_EXTREME_PREJUDICE flag or some such, but 
 > that's an API change.
 > 
 > Of course I haven't gotten that far yet, but eventually this will have to be 
 > dealt with...

There were several patches to do this. If I remember correctly Tigran
Aivazian wrote one, for example.

 > 
 > Rob

Nikita.