Re: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...

[Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>]

Balbir Singh wrote:
>>>>$ umount /mnt/data
>>>>Segmentation Fault
>>>>
>>>>dmesg:
>>>>
>>>>VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
>>>>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034
>>>
>>>
> 
> There were a couple of fixes suggested for the busy inodes afer
> unmount problem. Please see
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/17
> 
> and
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/30/108
> You could see if any one of them fixes your problem. There is also
> Kirill's fix which was in mm (not sure about it now)

Thanks for the suggestion, but I couldn't reproduce it with a simple
mount/umount and the partition in question is gone for good now. And I
don't feel like risiking 450gb of data, even if I had a backup of the
data...

Jan
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