Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:58:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:57:49 -0400 Received: from suntan.tandem.com ([192.216.221.8]:39092 "EHLO suntan.tandem.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:57:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3ADF5DCB.EEADD4E0@compaq.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:51:07 -0700 From: "Brian J. Watson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: active after unmount? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Unmounting a SCSI disk device succeeded, and yielded: > > Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) > Kernel 2.4.3 on a 2-processor i686 > > chico login: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have > a nice day... > This message comes out of kill_super(). I would guess that somebody's mismanaging VFS refcounts, but there's not enough info here to diagnose the problem. What filesystem are you using? Is this reproducible? What do you have to do between mounting and unmounting to reproduce the problem? -- Brian Watson Compaq Computer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/