Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-49,: Re: BUG in rmdir changes (was: Strange umount problem under Linux

# Re: BUG in rmdir changes (was: Strange umount problem under Linux

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:38:06 -0800 (PST)

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> I've seen the same behavior and did some more investigations yesterday.
> The problem are the rmdir changes in the VFS introduced with 2.1.131.
>
> The busy devices are caused by the removal of an non-existant directory.
>
> Look at the following session:
>
> pingu:~# umount /tmp
> pingu:~# mount /tmp
> pingu:~# rmdir /tmp/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> rmdir: /tmp/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa: No such file or directory
> pingu:~# umount /tmp
> umount: /tmp: device is busy
>
> I've put some printk's in the umount code and it seems that the root
> dentry has d_count = 2 at umount -> BUSY.
>
> This is with vanilla 2.1.131 and 2.1.131ac4, I've not tried later
> ac-patches.
>

Does it work with 2.1.130?

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    H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)

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