Sorry, my mistake. It happens only when ext4 is the root file system. -Zhao On Apr 25, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Monday, April 25, 2011, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 4/24/11 11:12 PM, Zhao Cai wrote: >>> I would appreciate if anyone can give me an answer. Is it designed to >>> be like this? >>> >>> Detailed situation: The system is ubuntu 11.04 installed in VMware. I >>> notice that ext4_put_super() is called when I unmount a non-root ext4 >>> partition. But it is not when I restart or shutdown the system. >> >> Even for a non-root filesystem? >> >> I don't know if ubuntu does anything special, but I would expect that during a system shutdown, non-root filesystems would be unmounted, and you'd get put_super called. Unless the fs is busy and it can't be unmounted for some reason... > > This strangely reminds me of my report that xfstests sometimes fails > to umount on Ubuntu 10.10. > But I could be just trying to hold on to the hope of somebody else > solving my problems... > >> >> -Eric >> >>> Thanksã >>> >>> -- All the best, >>> >>> Zhao Cai >>> >>> >>> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >>> linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
