Subject: Re: umount locks the whole system
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/07/2002 02:29:20
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 05:47:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> try mounting cdrom with lots of dirs, find /cdrom >/dev/null to load all
> dirs to memory and then umount it
>
> umount takes large amount of time (up to 10 second for me) in which it
> probably removes all data about CDrom from cache, but this time system is
> completely LOCKED.
>
> why?
Dunno... works for me.
What version of NetBSD and what hardware?
It sounds like something that happened to me in the past.
I did just get a CD-ROM drive for a Sun SS5 running NetBSD 1.5.2, so maybe
tomorrow I'll see if it still works.
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