> It would be wonderful if all umount(2)'s took an option to say -
> "for heaven sake, no further operations are going to work so just
> forget about this mount point!"  :-)

You mean, like umount -f / MNT_FORCE?

Note that MNT_FORCE has been buggy in the past; I've done a fair bit
of work to clean it up, but i'm willing to believe that there are some
bugs lingering.

					- Bill