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From: Maciek Nowacki <maciek@Voyager.powersurfr.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:45:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010523174541.A457@wintermute.starfire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010523172326.A898@wintermute.starfire> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105231927090.20269-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105231927090.20269-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:28:14PM -0400

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:28:14PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Maciek Nowacki wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:21:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > I wrote out the contents of /dev/rd/0 a few times and diff'ed with the
> > uncompressed image of the initrd on the server. No difference each time. The
> > same after digging into swap, turning off swap, running blockdev --flushbufs
> > several times (always with BLKFLSBUF: Device or resource busy).
> > 
> > The next test will be to create an initrd that has the 'initrd' directory..
> 
> Not initrd with /initrd in it, final root with /initrd, so that change_root()
> had a place to remount the thing on.

Yeah, but.. I get the message about change_root() before I have a chance to
do anything (there is no /linuxrc on my initrd). I could try with a linuxrc,
but I wanted to avoid that since since it seemed to be becoming obsolete.

Maciek

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-23 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-23 21:48 Busy on BLKFLSBUF w/initrd Maciek Nowacki
2001-05-23 22:05 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 22:11   ` Maciek Nowacki
2001-05-23 22:21     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 23:23       ` Maciek Nowacki
2001-05-23 23:28         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 23:45           ` Maciek Nowacki [this message]
2001-05-24  5:32   ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 10:42     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-24 10:56       ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 11:24         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-24 11:57           ` Herbert Xu
2001-05-24 13:27           ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-24 13:33             ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-24 18:39 ` Maciek Nowacki
2001-05-25  5:20   ` Scott Murray
2001-05-25 15:42     ` Maciek Nowacki

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