amazing that people start adding complications (all that "bdev" filesystem
stuff in recent kernels) without first getting the basics right -- the
bd_openers accounting doesn't seem to be correct.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is blockdev --flushbufs supposed to work on /dev/ram0 if it was loaded as
> initrd ramdisk? I unmount it and try to free the memory but hit this
> EBUSY in drivers/block/rd.c:rd_ioctl():
>
> /* special: we want to release the ramdisk memory,
> it's not like with the other blockdevices where
> this ioctl only flushes away the buffer cache. */
> if ((atomic_read(&inode->i_bdev->bd_openers) > 2))
> return -EBUSY;
>
> The kernel is 2.4.9 but this code is almost the same in 2.4.18. So, who is
> this opener that keeps the inode->i_bdev->bd_openers too high?
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
>
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