Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:00:50 +0100 | From | James Pearson <> | Subject | Re: umount() and NFS races in 2.4.26 |
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Thomas Moestl: >after deploying an SMP machine at work, we started to experience Oopses >in file-system related code relatively frequently. Investigation >revealed that they were caused by references using junk pointers from >freed super blocks via dangling inodes from unmounted file systems; >Oopses would always be preceded by the warning > VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... >on an unmount (unmount activity is high on this machine due to heavy >use of the automounter).
Are you using the latest autofs4 kernel patches?
I had a similar problem - see the thread at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=108515468003933&w=2
The latest autofs4 patches fixed it for me - available from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4
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