* Re: [semiPATCH] another vxfs fix
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@ 2001-08-03 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2001-08-03 7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andries.Brouwer; +Cc: alan, hch, torvalds, viro, linux-kernel
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:43:48AM +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>
> With the brelse() fix, a failed vxfs mount is OK.
> But after a successful vxfs mount the umount still yields
> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day
> (And today's [yesterday's] patch by Christoph makes no difference.)
>
> The reason is that the routine vxfs_fake_inode() does
> new_inode(), but this inode is never returned.
> I fixed this but am not sure against which base source
> the patch should be described.
> A minimal version would be to change the six [1] calls of
> vxfs_put_inode()
> in vxfs_super.c into calls of
> iput()
>
> (In my source I turned vxfs_fake_inode() into vxfs_get_fake_inode()
> and added vxfs_put_fake_inode() that just does iput().)
Sounds fine - just submit me any version and I'll rebase it against
the latest Linus and Alan trees.
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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