Re: Unmount breakage

Richard Gooch writes: > Alexander Viro writes: > > > > > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > Hi, Al. Recent kernels have a problem with unmounting via the device > > > file. If I do: > > > > > > # mknod /mydev b ... > > > # mount -n /mydev /mnt > > > # /tmp/kumount /mydev >

Re: Unmount breakage

Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Hi, Al. Recent kernels have a problem with unmounting via the device > > file. If I do: > > > > # mknod /mydev b ... > > # mount -n /mydev /mnt > > # /tmp/kumount /mydev > > Error unmounting: /mydevInvalid a

Re: Unmount breakage

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > Hi, Al. Recent kernels have a problem with unmounting via the device > file. If I do: > > # mknod /mydev b ... > # mount -n /mydev /mnt > # /tmp/kumount /mydev > Error unmounting: /mydevInvalid argument > > This used to work. Note that kum

Unmount breakage

Hi, Al. Recent kernels have a problem with unmounting via the device file. If I do: # mknod /mydev b ... # mount -n /mydev /mnt # /tmp/kumount /mydev Error unmounting: /mydevInvalid argument This used to work. Note that kumount only does a call to umount(2). If instead I do: # /tmp/ku