On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote: > Userspace wants to (non-force-)-unmount by itself after (1), so it can > stop the eject process if the filesystems cannot be cleanly > unmounted. So the force-unmount at (3) ends up being a redundant > safety measure at best.
More like it is a "make sure we can actually eject, as we have been told to". We might return an error instead, but if we do, we need a way to force-eject (e.g. echo 2 >eject). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
