From: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: EXT4-fs (dm-1): Couldn't remount RDWR because of unprocessed orphan inode list Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4E66478E.90102@redhat.com> <4E664DFD.80308@redhat.com> <20110908185139.GA2393@quack.suse.cz> <20110910200414.GA6709@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jan Kara , Eric Sandeen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, mszeredi@suse.cz, Al Viro To: Amir Goldstein Return-path: Received: from trent.utfs.org ([194.246.123.103]:52367 "EHLO trent.utfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492Ab1IPMRl (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:17:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 at 15:04, Amir Goldstein wrote: > This is just a shot in the dark, but are you using Ubuntu on your > production machine by any chance? No, I'm using Debian/stable on the "production" machine (the powerpc32 box, where the error occurs). I was trying to reproduce this in a x86 Ubuntu/10.04 VM, but could not. > The reason I am asking is becasue I have been getting failures to > umount fs, while running xfstests on ext4 > with Ubuntu for a long time and nobody else seems to share this problem. Is there a bug open for that? > I always suspected Ubuntu has some service that keeps open handles on > mounted fs, but I never got to examine this. Yeah...their "server" version needs major surgery to disable all the bells and whistles before it's becoming usable. Christian. -- BOFH excuse #92: Stale file handle (next time use Tupperware(tm)!)