Re: Fixing swap1_stop

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

On Aug 19,  1:04pm, hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost ("J. Hannken-Illjes") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Fixing swap1_stop

| A long time ago forced unmounts tried to change open block device nodes
| to anonymous (not attached to a file system) nodes.  This was racy and
| has been removed.
| 
| With the recent changes to the VFS subsystem it should be possible to
| bring this behaviour back and instead of destroying open device nodes
| a forced unmount would detach them from the file system and keep them
| active.
| 
| Did you mean something like this?

Yes exactly that.

christos