Re: FS Development (or interrupting ls)

["Amit S. Kale" <akale@veritas.com>]

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.

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).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sujal
> 
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Amit Kale
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