Re: FS Development (or interrupting ls)

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Friday 03 August 2001 12:18, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> Tigran Aivazian had a patch for doing a forced unmount.
> It will solve your problem.  You can check whether he has a patch
> for the kernel you are using.

And please post that patch to the list when you find it, or the URL :-)

--
Daniel

> Sujal Shah wrote:
> > I'm working on a userspace filesystem daemon which replaces Venus (from
> > CODA) or podfuk (UserVFS) using the CODA driver.  I'm still early in my
> > development process, but I've run into one frustrating problem.  While
> > testing my code, I have started causing ls to hang.
> >
> > It keeps the directory open, which means I can't do things like, oh,
> > unmount the filesystem. :-)  Anyone have any suggestions on recovering
> > gracefully when this happens short of rebooting (which is what I do
> > now)?  Basically, 'ls' hangs, and can't be killed (even kill -9) and
> > 'lsof' lists the directory as open (which is furthered confirmed by
> > umount complaining about the filesystem being busy).