Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: device busy on reboot with 2.3.99-pre5?

# Re: device busy on reboot with 2.3.99-pre5?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:44:28 -0700

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ying@almaden.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Why wouldn't I see the same problem with 2.3.51 or other recent kernel
> versions on the same machine setup configurations, though?
> Also, as long as I wrote something to an ext2 file system, say, /usr, at
> the reboot time, I'd get "device busy" when unmounting /usr.
> So, I don't think it's the /var/shm that caused the problem. It looks as
> if some reference count gets messed up.
>

Didn't say it was the cause of your problem, though.

-hpa

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