Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:46:36 -0400 | From | Andrew Rodland <> | Subject | Re: invalidate: busy buffer |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:27:35 +0100 "James Stevenson" <mistral@stev.org> wrote:
> > > Something tried to wipe out all of the caches for some device, but > > something else was using it at the time. For example, if you try to > > run parted on something mounted (and bypass/confuse its mountedness > > check) you'll see this. Were you doing anything like that? > > well i was running a badblocks over a 40GB ide disk i tend to check > them every few months. > apart from that everything else was running as non-root. > but yes some things would have been using the disk there was a copy > going on at the same time > around 400MB >
badblocks is another one of those apps that will try to flush out as much cache as it can; it's not much use trying the sectors repeatedly if it's just going to get cached versions :) > > > > Hi > > > > > > does anyone know what these mean ? > > > > > > under > > > > > > 2.4.19-pre8 > > > > > > invalidate: busy buffer > > > > > > in the dmesg output > > > got a bunch of these about 15 all together all of a sudden > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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