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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Subject: Re: mdconfig/umount Fatal trap 12 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:46:57 MST."
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:46:57 MST, Dima Dorfman wrote:

> > If people think this is too much of a panic(8) implementation we
> > can hide this behaviour behind a -JUSTDOIT! option.
> 
> This is easy to do; just add an -f option to mdconfig (which can be
> converted into an MD_FORCE flag or something) which means "bypass as
> many sanity checks as possible".  I'll do the work if it's desired.

Yuk.  Can't we just keep consistency, so that this happens:

	$ umount /dev/md0
	umount: unmount of /dev/md0 failed: Device busy
	$ umount -f /dev/md0
	<panic>

:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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