On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 04:26:16PM -0400, goggin, edward wrote: > Why shouldn't the kernel's reference counting for the > mapped device's md structure account for properly > handling the de-allocation of the md structure upon > the last close in this case? This behaviour has flipped a couple of times during the development. It would be fine if devices could never be suspended. You can't close a suspended device you've written to until it gets resumed. If you've removed it you can't resume it because it has gone. It's similar in a way to how the kernel used to (at least I assume someone fixed it?) let you unlink a swap file and then it was impossible to 'swapoff' because you couldn't reference the device any more. Alasdair -- agk@xxxxxxxxxx -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
