Re: PR/38141 CVS commit: src/sys

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 7, 12:40am, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: PR/38141 CVS commit: src/sys

| The following reply was made to PR kern/38141; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi)
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: ad%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
| Subject: Re: PR/38141 CVS commit: src/sys
| Date: Wed,  7 May 2008 09:36:37 +0900 (JST)
| 
|  >  One effect of this change: previously if an unmount failed, we would make 
a
|  >  half hearted attempt to back out of it gracefully, but that was unlikely 
to
|  >  work in a lot of cases. Now while an unmount that will be aborted is in
|  >  progress, new file operations within the mount will fail instead of being
|  >  delayed. That is unlikely to be a problem though, because if the admin
|  >  requests unmount of a file system then s(he) has made a decision to deny
|  >  access to the resource.
|  
|  doesn't it break, say, amd(8)?

amd will fail if umount on a busy filesystem succeeds.

christos