Re: active after unmount?

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:56:15 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Brian J. Watson wrote:

> > Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded:
> >
> > Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
> > Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686
> >
> > chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have
> > a nice day...
> >
>
>
> This message comes out of kill_super(). I would guess that somebody's
> mismanaging VFS refcounts, but there's not enough info here to diagnose the
> problem. What filesystem are you using? Is this reproducible? What do you have
> to do between mounting and unmounting to reproduce the problem?

>>>>>>ext2<<<<<<, haven't reproduced it yet, on a 2x686 256MB memory,
SCSI midlayer default, with 2.4.3.

-matt

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