On 10 April 2018 at 19:58, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> You can't unmount the file system --- that requires writing out all of the pages
> such that the dirty bit is turned off.
I always wondered why Linux didn't implement umount -f. It's been in
BSD since forever and it's a major annoyance that it's missing in
Linux. Even without leaking memory it still leaks other resources,
causes confusion and awkward workarounds in UI and automation
software.
--
greg
