Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 02:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu> To: Mats Lofkvist <mal@algonet.se> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stupidfs - easily extensible test file systems? Message-ID: <199911100705.CAA09303@shekel.mcl.cs.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Nov 1999 19:33:46 %2B0100." <y2qn1srh3lh.fsf@kairos.algonet.se>
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In message <y2qn1srh3lh.fsf@kairos.algonet.se>, Mats Lofkvist writes:
[...]
> I guess deadfs is what makes the -f (force) flag to umount work also, and
> that one is a truly great feature in FreeBSD missing in many other unixen
> (e.g. solaris {and linux, I believe}).
Hear hear. It's very useful when a user-level automounter dies. In such
cases even kill -9 doesn't help, umount -f does.
[...]
> Mats Lofkvist
> mal@algonet.se
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