On Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:22:24 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith
<akohlsmith@benshaw.com> said:
> The title says it all... Whenever I try to shutdown or
> three-finger-salute the box, everything shuts down correctly but it
> cannot unmount /, claiming the fs busy. Now I believe that I've got
> the correct mount and other file utils (has anything changed since
> 2.1.108?) so I'm a little bit baffled...
There is a process left holding a deleted inode open. Older kernels
mistakenly allowed you to unmount root in that case, leading to silent
fs corruption. The only change is that the new kernels force you to
make sure your reboot sequence is clean.
--Stephen
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