Coda File System

Re: problems stoping and restarting venus on Linux

From: <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:21:19 -0500
troybenj_at_scl.ameslab.gov said:
| I have coda-5.0.1 (with krb5 support) on a Linux-2.2 system, and if I
| run /etc/rc.d/init.d/venus stop, the CODA modules remains loaded with
| 1 'use' reference, thus making it impossible to unload the module or
| start another venus.

| This requires a reboot to make things happy again. Needless to say,
| this isn't supposed to happen..

There was a problem with the linux-2.2 kernel module when /coda was
unmounted before venus released the /dev/cfs0 device. The changes for
it haven't percolated up to Linus yet. I'll put a snapshot of the
current kernel code, which also fixes a problem with hardlinks, on the 
ftp-site.

	ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu:/pub/coda/src/linux-coda-5.2.0.tgz

Jan
Received on 1999-03-15 20:22:00