Why umount -A is a really bad idea

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:09:11PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>I have had a modification to mount waiting in the wings for a while now
>>which foregos the use of the registry entirely but I can't convince
>>myself that, if I implement it, the mailing list won't be filled with
>>the moans of people who now have to do a "mount -a -t ntfs" (or
>>whatever) every time they reboot.
>> 
>Any chance I can get a copy of this patch?

Sorry, no.  I tend to avoid releasing unfinished things.

When I'm ready to release patches they go into cvs.  The one in question
has undoubtedly suffered bit rot as I haven't looked at it in many
months.  It is not 100% complete, either.

cgf

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