Inodes surviving unmounts in 2.1.47?
Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:55:10 +0200
When converting NTFS to 2.1.47, I found a strange problem:
- file system mounts, works and unmounts just fine
- the driver is unloaded and reloaded, file system is remounted
- upon access, the driver crashes because a field in an inode
is null. The only place where this field is cleared is inside
put_inode. So for some reason, the VFS is passing me an inode wich
was already released.
I was checking the dcache code, but it looks like it does the right
thing: Upon unmounting, dentry_unused is properly cleared, which should
kill any remaining dentries for the file system.
It's probably my fault. If anybody can comment on the issue, please
let me know.
Regards,
Martin