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Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 22:59:50 +0200
From: andrea gelmini <andrea.gelmini@linux.it>
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Subject: Re: Busy buffers in invalidate
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On ven, apr 05, 2002 at 01:29:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > With 2.4.18 we recently get a lot of the following in the kernel log:
> > invalidate: busy buffer
> > 
> > Something to worry about?
> 
> Yes in some situations. Its fixed in 2.4.19pre5-ac2 and a bit before
well, i'm using 2.4.19-pre7-ac4 and if i run parted i've got a lot of
this messages.
it happens on a laptop asus k8400.

ciao,
andrea