Re: FUSE fusexmp proxy example solves umount problem!

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:33:30AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 02:49, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > what do people think about a filesystem proxy kernel module?
> > has anyone heard of such a beast already?
> > (which can also do xattrs)
> > 
> > fusexmp.c (in file system in userspace package) does stateless
> > filesystem proxy redirection.
> > 
> > this is a PERFECT solution to the problem of users removing media
> > from drives without warning. 
> 
> eh and the 2.6 kernel doesn't deal with it? 

 nope.
 
 not in the slightest bit: i wish it did!!!

 i'm using 2.6.8 [.1-selinux1 from http://sf.net/projects/selinux]


> It really is supposed to
> deal with it nicely already...

 please tell me how i enable such functionality!


 i remove a usb media, HAL does a umount -lf, konqueror still has
 directory handles open (see report i sent earlier with the little
 program opendir.c which duplicates what konqueror does), then HAL
 does an ioctl("/dev/sdc1", Block_Re_Read_PARTition) which returns 
 an error message "Device or Resource Busy".

 david (hal developer) considers this to be a serious bug in the
 linux kernel because a user action can cause hotplug events to
 not be generated.

 the above ioctl is supposed to cause a hotplug event that will
 allow HAL to remove the volume from its records.

 and it can't.
 
 l.
 
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