Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd

Mike Galbraith (mikeg@wen-online.de)
Thu, 24 May 2001 15:27:10 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Folks, who the hell is responsible for rd_inodes[] idiocy?
> > > >
> > > > That would have been me. It was simple and needed at the time..
> > > > feel free to rip it up :)
> > >
> > > Mike, I see what you are using it for, but you do realize that it
> > > means that creating /tmp/ram0 and opening it once will make /tmp
> > > impossible to unmount?
> >
> > I don't _think_ that was the case at the time I did it. I tested
> > the idio^Wbandaid before submission.. mighta fscked up though :)
>
> Erm... You pin the inode down. That makes filesystem busy by any
> definition I can think of...

Yes. I pulled the pins when I was done with them though.
(at least I think I did.. been a long time)

-Mike

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