On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Heimo Claasen wrote: > Sorry for the "convoluted style", James - perhaps it stems from trying > not to get entagled with terms I'm not too sure about. > It's actually entertaining most of the time. Sometimes your meaning is a bit obscure, though. In any case, I'm not asking you to change it. I may just need to ask for additional clarification at times. > > I'm searching for a good "visual" analogy - maybe fishing from a boat > could be, the boat being the "user" floating on the "System" waters, the > rod the "application": Usually, you would anchor somewhere, cast with the > rod, and draw whatever is hooked towards the boat; the boat wouldn't > move. Not so in Linux waters - if the bait is hooked (most probably on > the branch of a file-tree under the surface, <bg>) the boat is drawn > there and "anchored" _there_. So you're not allowed to cut that > submarine branch - this would set the boat adrift -, you first have to > lift the anchor and fasten the boat elsewhere. And someone else may be > fishing there too, and having been hooked up at the same invisible > branch. So this "user" has to move his booat too first, before you > may take a dive and tear the dang branch out of the water to recover > your precious bait. > That's a really intersting and helpful analogy, Heimo. Here's a question relative to it: do you think the "umount -l" command that works with 2.4.10 kernels and later, might have been introduced in response to this "shortcoming" (a relative assessment, I know) of the Linux mode of operation? Likewise, would it adequately resolve the problem for your usage (if you use the required kernel, that is)?
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