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Busy buffers in invalidate

DISCUSSION Udo A. Steinberg 4 participants 5 messages Apr 5, 2002 – May 3, 2002

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Hello,

With 2.4.18 we recently get a lot of the following in the kernel log:

invalidate: busy buffer

Something to worry about?

-Udo.

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With 2.4.18 we recently get a lot of the following in the kernel log:
invalidate: busy buffer

Something to worry about?

Yes in some situations. Its fixed in 2.4.19pre5-ac2 and a bit before

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In reply to Udo A. Steinberg

Are you using LVM.
if you get thiose message running vgscan -ay, then upgrade your LVM tools, and it will disappear

Quoted 18 lines · Udo A. Steinberg

Hello,

With 2.4.18 we recently get a lot of the following in the kernel log:

invalidate: busy buffer

Something to worry about?

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-Udo.
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Quoted 6 lines · Alan Cox
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With 2.4.18 we recently get a lot of the following in the kernel log:
invalidate: busy buffer

Something to worry about?

Yes in some situations. Its fixed in 2.4.19pre5-ac2 and a bit before

well, i'm using 2.4.19-pre7-ac4 and if i run parted i've got a lot of this messages.
it happens on a laptop asus k8400.

ciao,
andrea