Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd

[Maciek Nowacki <maciek@Voyager.powersurfr.com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:20:00AM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Maciek Nowacki wrote:
> 
> > This method depends on the change_root() mechanism which I had assumed is
> > becoming obsolete. It works, and there is no need to mess with
> > /proc/sys/kernel/real_root_dev if the root is specified on the command line.
> > Trying to use only pivot_root did not work as /dev/rd/0 could never be
> > flushed (see previous messages in this thread).
> 
> I was having similiar problems a few months back.  I was also trying
> to pivot_root out of an initial ramdisk and then unmount it.  I got it
> working, but kept forgetting to post one of the fixes that I found
> necessary to make it work when using auto-mounted devfs.
>
> [patch to init/main.c]

Cool, that did it. change_root doesn't occur anymore and BLKFLSBUF clears
things out of memory without any muckage. I will add this one to my patch
directory. Thanks!

Maciek