RE: [Bug 25832] kernel crashes when a mounted ext3/4 file system isphysically removed

[Alan Stern]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Rocko Requin wrote:

> That patch worked, thanks - no more kernel crashes!

That's good news.

> I did see some slightly strange behaviour, though: the umounts issued
> by the script were not working correctly, so the drive was mounting
> successively on /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1, etc again. After
> stopping the script, I was able to umount the various mountpoints
> manually, except for one (not the last one in the list, so not the
> most recently mounted one) which reported that the device was busy.
> lsof showed process jbd2/sdj1 three times, once with FD=cwd and
> TYPE=DIR, another with FD=rtd and TYPE=DIR, and lastly with FD=txt
> and TYPE=unknown.

Ted may have some ideas on how to find out what part of the unmount
commands is failing.

Alan Stern

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