> >
> > > > By the way this problem is reproducable with every mounted partition (even
> > > > MSDOS filesystems) so there must be something wrong in the VFS rmdir code.
> > > >
> > > > Am I the only poor soul that sees this problem?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Due to the umount bug, I have switched back to 2.1.130.
> >
> > It is real bugs. Alexander Viro sent me a big patch to fix a lot of these
> > problems and it'll be in ac9
> >
>
> At least, his suggestion to do_rmdir in name.c doesn't solve my floppy
> umount problem.
OK, couple of questions:
a) does it happen with filesystems _not_ on floppy (e.g.
loopback)?
b) does it happen with, say it, minixfs?
c) *what* happens? (strace would be great ;-)
Just some datapoints to narrow the stuff down... All I can tell right now
is that either you are hitting dentry leaks or you are leaving stale mmaps
(equivalent) or something confuses the hell of fd driver (unlikely).
Sometime ago I began to kruft up something that I called vfsck.
It's still damn rough, but it might be useful. If you could run it and
email me results (pretty much a dump of dcache and supers) I would
probably be able to narrow it down to the name of the sucker. I can email
you the source, it's <10K. If you could trigger the problem, go
single-user and run the thing on a silent system...
If you think that it's worth your time - tell me and I'll send the
source.
HTH,
Al
-- There are no "civil aviation for dummies" books out there and most of you would probably be scared and spend a lot of your time looking up if there was one. :-) Jordan Hubbard in c.u.b.f.m
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