Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 06:24:56 EST


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...

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