Re: losetup -d --force for zombie loop devices?

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On 01/11/2013 11:52 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> but my point was that what you are looking for is umount -f, not
>> umount -l.
> 
> and my point is that `umount -f` doesn't always work which means
> `umount -l` is sometimes the only way to remove a mount point.  an
> unresponsive remote or something is holding open a reference (which
> doesn't show up in `lsof -n`).

Right.  Forced unmounts aren't really implemented.  They need to be.
It isn't losetup that needs to be forcibly detached, but the filesystem.


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