Re: OSDL CGL-WG draft specs available for review

From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 04:39:29 EST


[CC:ed Mark Huth and Tigran Aivazian]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 4.10 Force unmount (2) 2 Experimental Availability Core
> 4.10 Description:
>
> CGL shall support forced unmounting of a filesystem.
> * The unmount should work even if there are open files or processes
> in the file system.
> * Pending requests should be ended with an error return when the
> file system is unmounted.
>
>
> This is very hard to get right. What the expermintel implementation
> you're referring to?

IIRC, Mark Huth from MontaVista and Tigran Aivazian from Veritas both
developed such an implementation independently of each other.
Maybe they can offer some insight.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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