On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:48:30AM -0800, Matt Ingenthron wrote:
> Robert Lunnon wrote:
> 
> >I want to stir the pot a bit and ask whether Solaris's practise of locking 
> >the manual cd open is really necessary when read-only media in mounted. 
> >Why not allow a manual eject and just invalidate the fs and unmount the 
> >filesystem automatically on a media remove.
> > 
> >
> Not to say it's the wrong thing to do, but under this proposal, what do 
> you suggest is the appropriate way to handle processes running off of 
> that filesystem or with open FDs to files on that filesystem?

Still not deciding if it's a good thing or not, but the logical way to handle
that would probably be the same way it's handled when a filesystem is forcibly
unmounted, that the processes will get an EIO.

//Magnus
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