Re: mnt_count accounting broken

From: Alexander Viro (aviro@redhat.com)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 11:07:18 EST


On Fri, 5 May 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Really? That's funny... You mean that something changes if you remove it?
> > Then we are *deep* in it.
>
> the reason that it always failed because of the first check didn't mean it
> would have passed the second check - hence I will need to recheck/retest
> and present a more coherent picture of what's going on - switching back
> and forth between writing nullfs and investigating what may be (not 100%
> proven yet) a VFS bug didn't generate a clear picture yet.

Tigran, could you please give me a reproducible way to get it? I'm sitting and
doing the lightweight-umount thing right now, but I suspect that if I'll have
the sequence that gives the bloody effect I'll find it fast enough.

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