Any chance you can finally merge this fix or suggest what better one you
are looking for? When this bug bit me in early April, an investigation
showed that this particular fix has been in the ac kernels since last
November.
Thanks,
Scott
-- Scott Murray SOMA Networks, Inc. Toronto, Ontario e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:55:37 +0200 From: Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> To: Kelledin Tane <runesong@earthlink.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why can't I flush /dev/ram0?
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Kelledin Tane wrote:
> At this point, I'm trying to get an initrd working properly. So far, it > works, the system boots, etc. etc., but whenever I try to do a "blockdev > --flushbufs /dev/ram0", I get "device or resource busy" > > When I mount the filesystem to check it out, nothing appears to have > anything open on the filesystem. So why am I not able to flush it > clean?
Because of a bug present in Linus tree. Try this patch:
--- linux.orig/drivers/block/rd.c Mon Nov 20 02:07:47 2000 +++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c Mon Nov 20 04:03:42 2000 @@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ done: if (infile.f_op->release) infile.f_op->release(inode, &infile); + blkdev_put(out_inode->i_bdev, BDEV_FILE); set_fs(fs); return; free_inodes: /* free inodes on error */
BTW, it's fixed in -ac patches.
Jan
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