> monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU said:
> > Shouldn't it be possible to do a forced umount (at worst a forced
> > "mount -o remount,ro") during shutdown ?
>
> > Is there a fundamental reason why this cannot be done ? Doesn't
> > `revoke' have to solve the same difficulties ?
>
> As does Magic-SysRq-U, to a certain extent. Between them, they should provide
> the majority of the code we need to implement a forced unmount.
>
> However, we might need to add a new syscall for it. umount(2) currently only
> takes a single argument: the name of the device/filesystem to be unmounted.
It looks like somebody planned this:
[sroot@blue:/root]# umount -f
umount: forced umount not supported yet
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