Oh yeah... I don't use devfs. So I don't think it's related to either the
shutdown or to devfs.
Matt Dharm
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> As another datapoint...
>
> I've had some problems umounting filesystems during ordinary operation.
> I'm running 2.3.99-pre6-2 now. Generally, I'll get a 'device busy' error
> from umount, but I _know_ that the device is not busy.
>
> I've also noticed from the debugging output I have enabled on my system
> that there are no commands being sent to the device when I try to do the
> umount. Whatever is deciding that the device is busy is not causing any
> accesses to be made to the disk.
>
> Also, running sync manually seems to work just fine.
>
> Matt Dharm
>
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Daniel Tryba wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 05:45:52PM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with unmounting my filesystems when I'm
> > > rebooting my system. This problem has only started when I upgraded to
> > > 2.3.99-pre5. My initial thought was that this is related to shm, however,
> >
> > Same problems here, 2.3.99-pre3 ran fine for about a week. Then I got
> > pre5 and started using devfs. This is when I first noticed the umount
> > problems. Switching to pre3 with devfs enabled I keep having the umount
> > problem.
> >
> > I didn't test it any further (without devfs that is).
> >
> >
>
>
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