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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: mdconfig/umount Fatal trap 12 
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:54:30 +0200
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In message <73894.992852530@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
>
>
>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>

Please check your details before replying.  It is not mount
which should yell, it is "mdconfig -d".

Besides "-f" is already a "-file" option to mdconfig, so a better
option letter needs to be found.

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