Quiescent filesystems marked with EXT2_VALID_FS while still mounted?

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 almesber en lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > Yes, yes! It's worth it!
> 
> I have to admit that I find the idea rather tempting too. On the
> other hand, is there anything this would do that an automounter
> wouldn't ?

You can continue using the data on that filesystem or have
processes which have a directory on one the filesystem as
their current directory.

(Say, an editor with one of the source code files from such
a disk in its buffer...)

regards,

Rik
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