On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:59:19 -0400
Kareem Dana <kareemy@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed in kernel 2.4.18 that my loop module remains busy after I
> umount the device using it. For example
>
> mount -t iso9660 -o loop file.iso /mnt
> * loop module gets loaded
> * lsmod shows "loop 7952 1 (autoclean)"
> * ps ax shows [loop0] process
>
> then
> umount /mnt
> lsmod shows the same thing - specifically the use of loop as 1 and the
> [loop0] process remains open. Trying to rmmod loop gives me a device
> or resource busy error.
For some reason or other, umount didn't losetup -d the device.
Try losetup -d /dev/loop0, and see whether it does what you want, or
returns some sort of error.
--hobbs
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