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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
