On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:16:19PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:06 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > I'm interested in understanding the state of Linux with regard to > > _really_ forcing a filesystem to unmount. > > > > There is a (stale) project at OSDL that has various implementations: > > http://developer.osdl.org/dev/fumount/ > > > the problem with the people who say they want forced umount is.. that > most of the time they either want > 1) get rid of the namespace entry > or > 2) want to stop any and all IO to a certain device/partition > > 1) is already supported with lazy umount (umount -l) > for 2), it's not forced umount that they want, it's really an IO > disconnect (which scsi supports btw in 2.6 kernels).
Could please tell me more about this IO disconnect? How to trigger it etc, any pointers welcome. thanks, -- pozsy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
