Re: /dev/md0: Device or resource busy

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 03:26:31 +0000 (GMT)

> i have 3 other md devices which i can stop no problem (even with 0xfd
> autodetection), just not /dev/md0.
>
> % raidstop /dev/md0
> /dev/md0: Device or resource busy
>
> i don't have any filesystem mounted on md0, and "lsof | grep md" doesn't
> show anything.

lsof isnt always the most reliable to tools if a kernel thread or nfs
ran off with it. Is md0 doing anything else - like rebuilding. Is there
anything that has been triggered or run from it - paticularly kernel
threads
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