From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:46:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <931490000.1002732397@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100917460.234-100000@desktop>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100917460.234-100000@desktop>
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 09:18:39 AM -0700 "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> wrote:
> What does this message mean in 2.4.11 at shutdown time:
>
> Invalidate: busy buffer
>
> I'm afraid it means "now your RAID is fucked."
No, it means someone called invalidate_buffers on a device that still
had buffers in use. This happened with older kernels too, 2.4.11
just complains on the console now.
The in use buffers are left alone, your raid should be fine.
-chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-10 16:18 Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11 Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-10-10 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-10 16:46 ` Chris Mason [this message]
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