[plug] handling failed non-redundant storage in a server

[Cameron Patrick]

Sham Chukoury wrote:

| Heh, well, kill -9 is one of the most powerful things I have against
| stubborn processes.. If that doesn't work and changing init levels isn't
| an option, I don't see how to get out of the mess without a good old
| fashioned reboot.

If kill -9 doesn't work, neither will changing init levels.  What you
really want is perhaps a way to tell the kernel to unmount the
filesystem Right Now on pain of something painful.  Craig, I note that
umount has a -f ("Force unmount") option - have you tried that?

Cameron.