Re: more on 2.1.45 mounting/unmounting

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:01:53 -0400


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Check out -6.

Thanks, I'm compiling it now.

> The -6 patch fixes a counter problem when traversing "." or "..", which
> resulted in incorrectly incrementing the counters twice. -6 also fixes
> unmounting, so it should work out-of-the-box (but only unmounts, not
> re-mounts read-only).

Yes, I saw the changes to fs_may_umount. But isn't it good to sync the
device and invalidate inodes after doing the shrink_dcache()? Seems
like there might be dirty inodes and it would be better to sync before
unmounting.

Will report back soon on any problems ...

-Bill