Re: /dev/cdrom mounting and umount -l

[Justin Guerin <jguerin@cso.atmel.com>]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:04, J Merritt wrote:
> OK, the lazy unmount via 'umount -l' worked. I was
> able to unmount and re-mount two different discs. No
> problems reported. I take it this is something that
> should not be done under normal circumstances? Is
> there any issue with using lazy unmount (I assume it's
> called lazy for a reason)?
>
It's not the preferred solution, no.  It's called lazy because you don't 
have to work to find out which process is hanging on to the mount and stop 
it.  ;-)

Justin Guerin