Re: invalidate: busy buffer

[Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com>]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:27:35 +0100
"James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org> wrote:

> 
> > Something tried to wipe out all of the caches for some device, but
> > something else was using it at the time. For example, if you try to
> > run parted on something mounted (and bypass/confuse its mountedness
> > check) you'll see this. Were you doing anything like that?
> 
> well i was running a badblocks over a 40GB ide disk i tend to check
> them every few months.
> apart from that everything else was running as non-root.
> but yes some things would have been using the disk there was a copy
> going on at the same time
> around 400MB
> 

badblocks is another one of those apps that will try to flush out as
much cache as it can; it's not much use trying the sectors repeatedly if
it's just going to get cached versions :)
> 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > does anyone know what these mean ?
> > >
> > > under
> > >
> > > 2.4.19-pre8
> > >
> > > invalidate: busy buffer
> > >
> > > in the dmesg output
> > > got a bunch of these about 15 all together all of a sudden
> 
> 
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