Re: [Vserver] mountpoints blocked - reloaded -- any updates ?

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue 14 Mar 2006 - 13:20:59 GMT
Message-ID: <20060314132058.GC21506@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:01:25PM +0100, alexander goeres - lieblinx.net wrote:
> Hello List, hello Herbert,
>
> is there any update or solution regarding this problem?

yep, AFAICR it should be fixed ...

(i.e. *-rc12 should not have that problem on 2.6.16-rc5)

HTH,
Herbert

> regards,
> Alexander
>
> Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 00:38 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:50:41PM +0100, Oliver Welter wrote:
> > > Hi Folks, Hi Bertl,
> > >
> > > the problem which seemed to be solved re-appeard today with recent
> > > kernel patches (2.6.15-gentoo-r4-vs2.1.1-rc6)
> > >
> > > To reconstruct the problem
> > > 1) add a drbd blockdevice to the guests fstab
> > > 2) start and stop guest
> > > 3) try to unmount the device
> > > you get an error, telling that the drbd device is still mounted...
> > >
> > > So - any ideas ??
> >
> > okay, just as update, we tracked this down to
> > the fact that even mainline 2.6.15/2.6.16-rc3
> > does not release ext3 filesystems properly
> > when the namespace is destroyed ... this can
> > be easily verified with a mainline kernel and
> > the following command sequence:
> >
> > vnamespace --new -- mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> >
> > (assuming that /dev/hda1 contains an ext3 fs
> > and /mnt exists, this will claim hda1 but not
> > release it -- it works fine with ext2 though)
> >
> > now investigating ...
> >
> > best,
>
> > Herbert
> >
> > > I am sure that there are no other contexts running, the maschine was
> > > booted freshly before doing the above steps and the testsystem was the
> > > only running guest
> > >
> > > Oliver
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