Re: Problems umounting w/ pre5/pre6

From: Adam K Kirchhoff (adamk@voicenet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 21:16:05 EST


Although I first noticed this problem when I tried out devfs, it was also
at this time that I went from pre3 to pre5... Compiling and using a pre5
kernel w/o devfs support didn't fix the problem, so that doesn't appear to
be the issue.

Adam

On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Alexander Viro writes:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > -------------------------
> > |> > > > problems. Switching to pre3 with devfs enabled I keep having the umount
> > |> > > > problem.
> > -------------------------
> >
> > > Oh, this isn't the same problem that's been kicking around for a week
> > > or so?
> >
> > Nope. There were too leaks - one in walk_name() and another in
> > open_namei(). Both went in pre4-<something>. If the quoted is true -
> > looks like we've got something else to deal with.
>
> Interesting. I've noticed a problem with unmounting in pre6-3, but
> with pre6-5 it seems to have gone away (two reboots without
> complaints).
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
> Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
> Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
>

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