Re: lazy-umount cwd and ..

[Tim Hockin]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:46:17AM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:44:33PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > Should I bother to polish this patch off and send it, or is it just not
> > something we want to care about?
> 
> No.  This is simply wrong - one of the situations when you want lazy-umount
> is getting a stuck filesystem (e.g. NFS mounted hard) and wanting to get
> it out of the way, so that stuff it's mounted on could be unmounted clean.
> 
> So we definitely don't want to keep anything pinned down.

I'll buy that.  I guess it's not worth dreaming up something else to make
that be less surprising to apps with cwd in a lazy umounted mount.

Cheers.
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