Re: PROBLEM: umountfs and shutting down linux 2.3.99-pre5

Adam K Kirchhoff (adamk@voicenet.com)
Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:59:31 -0400 (EDT)

Considering all the problems people are still having with this,
using distributions other than RedHat (including myself with Slackware
using pre6-5), is this a safe assumption to make? And if this is due to
either devfs or shmfs changing the filter criteria, why didn't it appear
earlier (ie -pre3?).

Adam

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On 23 Apr 2000 18:13:55 +0200,
"Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es> wrote:
>>>>>> "hadmut" == Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de> writes:
>
>hadmut> 1. Local filesystems not properly unmounted when halting a
2.3.99-pre5
>
>This problem has been solved (at least here) with the patch from Al
>Viro, they are included in 2.3.99-pre6-5 (and I am not sure if they
>are also included in 2.3.99-pre6-4).

Even with 2.3.99-pre6-5, file systems do not unmount correctly, it
turned out to be a user space problem. /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (Redhat)
excludes some tasks from the kill list. Either devfs or shmfs changed
the filter criteria, with the old init.d/halt, the shutdown task gets
killed before it has a chance to do a clean unmount.
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