Re: 2.1.50 VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.

Craig Schlenter (craig@security.is.co.za)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 18:07:38 +0200 (SAT)


On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:
> >
> > Craig,
> > I tried playing with a CDROM and didn't get any busy inodes, so maybe
> > the cdwriter is forgetting to release an inode.
>
> isofs was broken wrt symlinks, any symlink reading probably resulted in
> more-or-less random behaviour.
>
> I've made a pre-patch-2.1.51 that should have this fixed (thanks to the
> person who sent me the patch - I've misplaced the name but the patch
> looked fine).

This fixes my unmount problem with the iso9660 CDROM. Excellent stuff!

Thank you,

--Craig