2.1.50: /dev/ram now unmounts - Re: 2.1.49 oops.

Edward Welbon (welbon@bga.com)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:15:41 -0500 (CDT)


I can now unmount and free the initial ram disk.

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:54:46 -0400
> From: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net>
> To: welbon@bga.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Subject: Re: 2.1.49 oops.
>
> Edward Welbon wrote:
>
> > Well, it looks much better, but I can't unmount /initrd or /dev/ram.
> > Mount shows no evidence of /initrd but /proc/mounts does:
>
> There does seem to be a "busy inode" problem in 2.1.49. I've added a
> diagnostic check to invalidate_list to show the offending inodes, along
> with their names (if any).

Ed Welbon; welbon@bga.com;

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