Re: busy inodes -> ext3 umount crash

[Jiri Slaby]

On 04/19/2010 04:33 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> The trigger for busy inodes is as simple as (I=initialization done only
> once):
> I> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/ext3 bs=1024 count=1 seek=$((100*1024))
> I> # mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/shm/ext3
> # mount -oloop /dev/shm/ext3 /mnt/c
> # umount /mnt/c
> # dmesg|tail
> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop0. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.
> Have a nice day...
> 
> (The printk time varies -- this sequence really suffices.)

Well, this happens only after gnome-session is started and it's fuzzy --
sometimes it happens, sometimes not. I didn't find 100% trigger yet.

>> So if you can easily reproduce
>> the "busy inodes" message then I'd start with debugging that one. Do you
>> see it also with vanilla kernels?

Vanilla seems not to be affected. It's in next/master already though
(2603ecd9). I'll investigate it further later.
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