> > > All this seems very neat. One question: what about forced umount / forced
> > > remount readonly stuff? Any plans on that?
> > >
> >
> > That would be *very* nice indeed. Even if it was only for things like NFS
> > and SMBFS.
>
> umount(mountpoint, MNT_DETACH);
>
> Had been there for quite a while...
>
> It's not a forced umount - it detaches the subtree from mountpoint and
> filesystem(s) go away when they stop being busy. But for remote
> filesystems that's precisely what you want.
Can I umount filesystems below them? Can I reboot with
busy-but-detached filesystems? Can I kill the processes accessing busy
filesystems? [That was big point of force umount, I believe.]
Pavel
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