Re: [PATCH] Fixing soft NFS umount -f, round 1

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> Well, sure, but we were talking about soft mounts. While I suppose it
> would be nice to be able to umount -f a hard mount too, it doesn't
> seem like a requirement or even necessarily consistent with the intent
> of hard mount semantics.

The intent of hard mount is to make sure any I/O completes, at the
expense of waiting a long time if the server is down. But I think it is
wrong to extend that up to prevent root from forcibly unmounting a
filesystem. 

But thenthe problem is that when an I/O is already started on a hard
mount, we will not be able to abort it easily. 

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