Re: [announce] forced umount patch (2.4.0-test5-pre5)

2000-07-28 Thread Jamie Lokier
Tigran Aivazian wrote: b) it has serious (though unlikely to occur) race conditions wrt filesystem's module unload and possibly with rename(2). And perhaps with mount(2), which these days seems to do everything rename(2) does and more? -- Jamie

[announce] forced umount patch (2.4.0-test5-pre5)

2000-07-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, Someone asked me to announce this on linux-fsdevel (I did on linux-kernel only). So here goes: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/badfs-2.4.0-test5-pre5.patch This patch adds ability to forcibly umount (as in umount -f) any filesystem. This is work in progress and by no means ready for