Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 18, 2002

[Ville Herva]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:24:55PM +0100, you [Jakob Østergaard] claimed:
>
> That would be *very* nice indeed.  Even if it was only for things like NFS
> and SMBFS.
> 
> And even if it is unsafe - it's a lot better to be able to say "screw
> those pending writes", than to have to say "screw the pending writes by
> rebooting the system".

Last time this was discussed on the list, Tigran Aivazian mentioned this
patch:

http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/forced-umount-2.4.9.patch

I haven't tested it, but it seems better than "fuser -k -m /fs" (and the
problem I've faced is that if there's something wrong (like HW level IO
problems) kill -KILL won't work).

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