Re: [PATCH] Can't unmount bad inode

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:20:51PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> This patch fixes a problem when a inode which is the root of a mount
> becomes bad (make_bad_inode()).  In this case follow_link will return
> -EIO, so the name resolution fails, and umount won't work.  The
> solution is just to remove the follow_link method from bad_inode_ops.
> Any filesystem operation (other than unmount) will still fail, since
> every other method returns -EIO.

I'm not all that sure that we want to follow symlinks in the last
pathname component upon umount, actually...
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