Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4458 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 19:49 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:12, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:55:05PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > Unmountable _AT THE MOMENT!_ There are no file systems (other than
> > > the root) that cannot be unmounted.
> >
> > While that may be true in theory, in practice it's really not a good
> > idea to tell cluebies that.
> 
> Eh?
> 
> You'd rather have them pull the plug and risk file system corruption?
> 
> 
> > Or have you never gotten to watch what happens when you un-mount /usr
> > from under someone?  Things don't work very well after that.
> 
> All I'm saying is that once you disoncontinue all active uses of a 
> mounted file system (including working directories), it can be 
> unmounted safely. That's true and useful information.
> 
> 

Except for / (root) which is always busy with open log files.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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