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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:59:27 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:09 +0200, Harald Seipp wrote:
> I assume this is a bug? How can I prevent that behavior? Can I easily query
> if a device on "h b t l" is mounted to work-around?

No, it's expected behaviour.  The mount keeps a reference to the old
device node so it can't be reused.

James