mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Brian J. Watson" <Brian.J.Watson@compaq.com>
To: mjacob@feral.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: active after unmount?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:51:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ADF5DCB.EEADD4E0@compaq.com> (raw)

> Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded:
> 
> Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
> Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686
> 
> chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have
> a nice day...
> 


This message comes out of kill_super(). I would guess that somebody's
mismanaging VFS refcounts, but there's not enough info here to diagnose the
problem. What filesystem are you using? Is this reproducible? What do you have
to do between mounting and unmounting to reproduce the problem?

--
Brian Watson
Compaq Computer

             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-19 21:51 Brian J. Watson [this message]
2001-04-19 21:56 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-04-19 22:09   ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-19 22:17     ` Matthew Jacob
2001-04-20  0:41       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-20  3:22         ` Matthew Jacob
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-17 15:40 Matthew Jacob

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3ADF5DCB.EEADD4E0@compaq.com \
    --to=brian.j.watson@compaq.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mjacob@feral.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®