Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:40:54 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11 |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:05:51PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > very clear now, thanks. I though the fs you were talking about was > > mounted on the blkdev, while it is instead the one where the blkdev > > inode cames from. Usually people keeps bldkev in /dev and nobody > > unmounts /dev that's why I didn't noticed and thought about it, sorry. > > > Don't assume "nobody does..." There is always someone that do. > > This particular one will easily come up for anybody who > develop boot floppies: > > 1. Mount the boot floppy at /mnt > 2. Test the device files in /mnt/dev, _perhaps by using them > in every way imaginable_ > 3. Umount the boot floppy. - There goes /mnt/dev and a bunch > of block devices. > > Umounting some dev/ is common enough.
Of course, that's a bug and it must be fixed.
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