Ric Wheeler wrote:
Any thoughts about what the right semantics are for properly doing a forced unmount and how whether it is doable near term (as opposed to the more strategic/long term issues laid out in this thread) ?
I would like to ask you take one step back; in the past when I have seen people want "forced unmount" they wanted instead somethings else that they thought (at that point incorrectly) forced unmount would solve. there's a few things an unmount does 1) detach from the namespace (tree) 2) shut down the filesystem to 2a) allow someone else to mount/fsck/etc it 2b) finish stuff up and put it in a known state (clean) 3) shut down IO to a fs for another node to take over (which is what the "incorrectly" is about technically) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
