Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> Off the top of my head, what is wrong/hard with just logging a device
> failure, discarding all remaining cached operations, and unmounting
> the fs when a disk device goes missing? I understand that this is not
> a viable solution for critical filesystems, but I can see nothing
> wrong with this approach for removable devices and/or non-critical
> fs's.

There was a long, long thread which discussed this earlier.

It's easy to say what should be done, it's harder to submit patches that 
clean up the respective failure modes.

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