From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:06:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:06:04 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:55058 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7CEC89.642FB425@xss.co.at> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:06:01 +0200 From: Daniel Wagner Organization: xS+S X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: initrd: couldn't umount Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi. we try to setup an initrd for diskless nodes, which allows us a modular kernelconfiguration (especially the net-drivers). it work quite well, but ... the problem is that a "rpciod" kernel-thread references the initrd, and so umounting and freeing it, isn't possible. has anybody an idea how to fix this problem, cause it would be nice, to free the initrd ram on a diskless node. this is what comes after processing the initrd: --- Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.162.201 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.162.201 VFS: Mounted root (NFS filesystem). change_root: old root has d_count=3 Mounted devfs on /dev Trying to unmount old root ... <3>error -16 Change root to /initrd: error -2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 56k freed --- Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Wagner | mailto:daniel@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71