Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

[Nikos Ntarmos]

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:03:42PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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.

Point taken.

Do you have any pointers to that thread? I did a quick search in
hackers@ and current@ but failed to find anything relevant, other than
people reporting related crashes and "don't do that, then"-type answers.

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