When playing with union filesystems this morning, I noticed that it's not possible to unmount the directory mounted on union cleanly, even after the union has been cleanly unmounted, once you've read from the union: Setup: # touch fs1 fs2 # mkdir tstfs # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fs1 -s 16M # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f fs2 -s 16M # newfs /dev/md0 # newfs /dev/md1 # mount /dev/md0 tstfs/ # mount /dev/md1 /mnt # mount -t unionfs /mnt tstfs/ Trying to umount /mnt now fails as expected: # umount /mnt umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Device busy Unmounting after the union has been unmounted without anything having been read from it or written to it, is no problem either: # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt When something has been written to the union, but nothing has been read from it, there's not problem either: # touch tstfs/foo # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt When something has been read, however: # ls tstfs/ .snap/ foo # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Device busy Strangely, when an 'empty' union is read from, there's no problem unmounting it. It's only when it's read when there's something on it. In other words, from a clean setup: # ls tstfs/ .snap/ # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt But (continuing on the clean setup): # mount /dev/md1 /mnt # mount -t unionfs /mnt tstfs/ # touch tstfs/foo # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt # mount /dev/md1 /mnt # mount -t unionfs /mnt tstfs/ # ls tstfs/ .snap/ foo # umount tstfs/ # umount /mnt umount: unmount of /mnt failed: Device busy Is anyone else seeing this? :-) - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip_at_freebsd.org subscribed to the list. BOFH Excuse #237: Plate voltage too low on demodulator tubeReceived on Wed Jun 22 2005 - 04:54:01 UTC
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