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* Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11
@ 2001-10-10 16:18 Jeffrey W. Baker
  2001-10-10 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
  2001-10-10 16:46 ` Chris Mason
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey W. Baker @ 2001-10-10 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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."

-jwb


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* Re: Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11
  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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2001-10-10 16:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110100917460.234-100000@desktop>,
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 really means: raid and LVM are a bit too happy to invalidate the
underlying block devices, and the warning should be harmless.

Unless, of course, all your data has magically gone up in smoke ;)

		Linus

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* Re: Invalidate: busy buffer at shutdown with 2.4.11
  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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Chris Mason @ 2001-10-10 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeffrey W. Baker, linux-kernel



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


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