Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3

Arthur Pedyczak (arthur-p@home.com)
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:37:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Arthur Pedyczak wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Can you try 2.4.4-pre3?
> > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/
> >

...the same thing happens in 2.4.3...

> I am testing loop behaviour in 2.4.3 and 3.4.4p3. I have noticed something
> disturbing:
>
> I can mount the same file on the same mountpoint more than once. If I
> mount a file twice (same file on the same mount point)
> both mounts (identical) show when I do df or cat /proc/mounts. If I issue
> unmount (once), both mounts disappear from df output, but one of them
> remains in /proc/mounts. If I issue umount again, the second mount
> disappers from cat /proc/mounts output, but the module 'loop' shows as
> busy and cannot be removed even though there are no more loop mounts.
> lsmod shows loop being used by 1 process.
> If I repeat this whole procedure again, loop will be used by 2 processess
> in the end. I guess something is wrong here.
> This experiment has been done under 2.4.4pre3. I will try the same under
> 2.4.3.
>
> cheers,
> Arthur
>
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