Recent patch to description of MNT_FORCE incorrectly dropped the mention of possible data loss. Restore it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> --- Sorry, I thought I had put the mention of data loss back it, but clearly not. NeilBrown man2/umount.2 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/umount.2 b/man2/umount.2 index ccd1d07afe88..01f42710ee9d 100644 --- a/man2/umount.2 +++ b/man2/umount.2 @@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ controlling the behavior of the operation: .BR MNT_FORCE " (since Linux 2.1.116)" Ask the filesystem to abort pending requests before attempting the unmount. This may allow the unmount to complete without waiting -for an inaccessible server. If, after aborting requests, some -processes still have active references to the filesystem, the -unmount will still fail. In Linux 4.12, only the filesystems +for an inaccessible server, but could cause data loss. If, after +aborting requests, some processes still have active references to the +filesystem, the unmount will still fail. In Linux 4.12, only the +filesystems 9p (2.6.16), ceph (2.6.34), cifs (2.6.12), -- 2.14.0.rc0.dirty
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