Re: Making forced unmounts work

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("J. Hannken-Illjes") writes:

>On Dec 6, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> 
>wrote:

>> hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("J. Hannken-Illjes") writes:
>> 
>>> David wants forced unmounts to work even if a thread gets stuck
>>> permanently in a vnode operation.
>> 
>> How can it get stuck (short of bugs) ?

>Here we are talking about bugs only.


I am interested in the case where a mounted device is detached and the
umount blocks forever. Wether that is considered a bug or a design
decision, I don't care.


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