Re: mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding

[Alexander Viro]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# cat /proc/mounts
> > > /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# swapon /dev/hdb2
> > 
> > - Doctor, it hurts when I do it!
> > - Don't do it, then.
> > 
> > Just what behaviour had you expected?
> 
> EBUSY would be somewhat nicer.

Probably. Try to convince Linus that we need such exclusion. All stuff
needed to implement it is already there - see blkdev_open() for details.
OTOH, as long as kernel itself survives that... In this case I can see
the point in "give them enough rope" approach.

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