Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd

[Maciek Nowacki]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:28:14PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Maciek Nowacki wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:21:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > I wrote out the contents of /dev/rd/0 a few times and diff'ed with the
> > uncompressed image of the initrd on the server. No difference each time. The
> > same after digging into swap, turning off swap, running blockdev --flushbufs
> > several times (always with BLKFLSBUF: Device or resource busy).
> > 
> > The next test will be to create an initrd that has the 'initrd' directory..
> 
> Not initrd with /initrd in it, final root with /initrd, so that change_root()
> had a place to remount the thing on.

Yeah, but.. I get the message about change_root() before I have a chance to
do anything (there is no /linuxrc on my initrd). I could try with a linuxrc,
but I wanted to avoid that since since it seemed to be becoming obsolete.

Maciek