Re: [PATCH] add procfs tunable to enable immediate panic when there are busy inodes after umount

2007-05-30 Thread Jeff Layton
On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:28:57 +1000 David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > After spending quite a bit of time tracking down a "VFS: busy inodes > > after unmount" problem, it occurs to me that it would be nice to be > > able to fo

Re: [PATCH] add procfs tunable to enable immediate panic when there are busy inodes after umount

2007-05-29 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > After spending quite a bit of time tracking down a "VFS: busy inodes > after unmount" problem, it occurs to me that it would be nice to be > able to force a panic when that occurs. While an oops message alone is > not generally helpful

Re: [PATCH] add procfs tunable to enable immediate panic when there are busy inodes after umount

2007-05-29 Thread Jeff Layton
would be nice to be > > able to force a panic when that occurs. While an oops message alone is > > not generally helpful for tracking down this sort of problem, > > collecting and analyzing a coredump when this occurs can be. > > > > The following patch adds a procfs tu

Re: [PATCH] add procfs tunable to enable immediate panic when there are busy inodes after umount

2007-05-29 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
not generally helpful for tracking down this sort of problem, > collecting and analyzing a coredump when this occurs can be. > > The following patch adds a procfs tunable that allows you to force a > core when a "busy inodes after umount" problem occurs. It also changes >

[PATCH] add procfs tunable to enable immediate panic when there are busy inodes after umount

2007-05-29 Thread Jeff Layton
nalyzing a coredump when this occurs can be. The following patch adds a procfs tunable that allows you to force a core when a "busy inodes after umount" problem occurs. It also changes the classic error message to be something a bit less cryptic to users. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[

Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - fix infamous "Busy inodes after umount ..." message.

2005-07-24 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Hi Ian, On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:12, Ian Kent wrote: > If the automount daemon receives a signal which causes it to sumarily > terminate the autofs4 module leaks dentries. The same problem exists with > detached mount requests without the warning. > > This patch cleans these dentries at umount.

[PATCH] autofs4 - fix infamous "Busy inodes after umount ..." message.

2005-07-23 Thread Ian Kent
nclude #include +#include #include "autofs_i.h" #include @@ -76,6 +77,66 @@ kfree(ino); } +/* + * Deal with the infamous "Busy inodes after umount ..." message. + * + * Clean up the dentry tree. This happens with autofs if the user + * space program goes away

Re: Busy inodes after umount

2001-07-19 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:38:15PM -0500, Tad Dolphay wrote: > I know there was a fix for a "Busy inodes after unmount" problem in > 2.4.6-pre3. Here's an excerpt from a posting to the NFS mailing list > from Neil Brown: Thanks. I'll try that and see if that solves the problem (also the XFS UUID

Re: Busy inodes after umount

2001-07-19 Thread Tad Dolphay
I know there was a fix for a "Busy inodes after unmount" problem in 2.4.6-pre3. Here's an excerpt from a posting to the NFS mailing list from Neil Brown: -Included message--- Previously anonymous dentries were hashed (though with no name, the hash was pretty me

Re: Busy inodes after umount

2001-07-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
I reported this a couple of months back. It's reassuring to know that it's a consistent problem. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:22:07PM -0400, Christian, Chip wrote: > > I found the same thing happening. Tracked it down in our case to usin

Re: Busy inodes after umount

2001-07-19 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:22:07PM -0400, Christian, Chip wrote: > I found the same thing happening. Tracked it down in our case to using fdisk to >re-read disk size before mounting. Replaced it with "blockdev --readpt" and the >problem seems to have gone away. YMMV. I've now been able to re

VFS busy inodes after umount -- have a nice day...

2000-11-19 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, Here is how I manage to hit this under 2.4.0-test11-pre6 1. mkfs an ext2 filesystem on a 36G disk 2. do a complex combination of data and metadata io on it by means of SPECsfs with LOADs high enough to run out of space 3. observe that both high and low memory are almost zero, i.e. about