Datapoint re: "umount: device busy"

From: Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 11:18:16 EST

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Hi,

It seems that it's fairly easy to get a ramfs stuck:

# mkdir bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# umount bar
# mount -t ramfs bar bar
# chown nobody bar
# umount bar
umount: /root/bar: device is busy
#

This doesn't appear to affect ext2 filesystems, though.

Matthew

-- $ grep -c ramfs /proc/mounts 12

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