Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: more on 2.1.45 mounting/unmounting |
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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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