Re: Problems umounting w/ pre5/pre6

From: Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 20:10:23 EDT

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    Oh yeah... I don't use devfs. So I don't think it's related to either the
    shutdown or to devfs.

    Matt Dharm

    On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote:

    > As another datapoint...
    >
    > I've had some problems umounting filesystems during ordinary operation.
    > I'm running 2.3.99-pre6-2 now. Generally, I'll get a 'device busy' error
    > from umount, but I _know_ that the device is not busy.
    >
    > I've also noticed from the debugging output I have enabled on my system
    > that there are no commands being sent to the device when I try to do the
    > umount. Whatever is deciding that the device is busy is not causing any
    > accesses to be made to the disk.
    >
    > Also, running sync manually seems to work just fine.
    >
    > Matt Dharm
    >
    > On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Daniel Tryba wrote:
    >
    > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 05:45:52PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
    > > >
    > > > I'm having a problem with unmounting my filesystems when I'm
    > > > rebooting my system. This problem has only started when I upgraded to
    > > > 2.3.99-pre5. My initial thought was that this is related to shm, however,
    > >
    > > Same problems here, 2.3.99-pre3 ran fine for about a week. Then I got
    > > pre5 and started using devfs. This is when I first noticed the umount
    > > problems. Switching to pre3 with devfs enabled I keep having the umount
    > > problem.
    > >
    > > I didn't test it any further (without devfs that is).
    > >
    > >
    >
    > 

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