Re: forced umount?

[Phillip Susi]

Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> We never want to _abort_ pending updates only pending reads. So, even with 
> revoke(), we need to be careful which is why we do do_fsync() in 
> generic_revoke_file() to make sure pending updates are flushed before we 
> declare the inode revoked.
>
> But, I haven't looked at forced unmount that much so there may be other 
> issues I am not aware of.

For the purposes of this thread we _do_ want to abort pending updates to
force the system to give up on a broken block device rather than block a 
bunch of tasks in the D state forever.

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