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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.

>
>Of course loopback mounts would be kind of upset about this, but to be 
>honest: tough.  The loopback block device gives them an I/O error, and the 
>filesystem should just cope.  Floppies do this all the time with dust and cat 
>hair and stuff...
>
>Of course I don't yet know 1/10 as much about the VFS as I need to, but I'm 
>learning.  Slowly...
>
>Rob
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