Re: Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:29:36 +0000 (UTC)


In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100917460.234-100000@desktop>,
Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org> wrote:
>What does this message mean in 2.4.11 at shutdown time:
>
>Invalidate: busy buffer
>
>I'm afraid it means "now your RAID is fucked."

No, it really means: raid and LVM are a bit too happy to invalidate the
underlying block devices, and the warning should be harmless.

Unless, of course, all your data has magically gone up in smoke ;)

Linus
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