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    SubjectRe: more on 2.1.45 mounting/unmounting


    On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:
    >
    > I've noticed from some debugging messages that there seems to be a major
    > mismatch between dgets and dputs for root dentries. When I shutdown,
    > the root dentry d_count is in the hundreds or thousands, after only a
    > few minutes of operation.

    Check out -6.

    The -6 patch fixes a counter problem when traversing "." or "..", which
    resulted in incorrectly incrementing the counters twice. -6 also fixes
    unmounting, so it should work out-of-the-box (but only unmounts, not
    re-mounts read-only).

    Linus


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