Subject: Re: unable to unmount failing disk
To: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 05/29/2000 18:18:29
According to Martin Husemann:
>
>And, of course, it's still mounted. This is damn wrong, isn't it?
>

Don't think so, the -f only prevents the filesystem in use check,
the kernel will still want to flush the filesystem state to disk
before the unmount is done.  Perchance we need a "don't sync" option
on the unmount call much like shutdown has?

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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