On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:45 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Nitin Bhardwaj:
>> Here are the contents of /proc/mounts:
>        :::
>> /dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
>        :::
>> none /usr aufs 
>> rw,si=ba4cb5a9,xino=/.aufs/usr/.aufs.xino,br:/.aufs/usr=rw:/.squashfs/usr=ro
>> 0 0
>
> I see.
> /.aufs/usr/.aufs.xino is on root ext3.
>
>
>> If xino files are keeping the rootfs busy, can I try using tmpfs for
>> xino files while mounting aufs ( xino=/dev/shm/xino ) ? Is it ok to do
>> that ?
>
> Yes you can.
> Or you can "mount -o remount,noxino /usr" before "umount -l /usr".
> The noxino option closes xino files.
>
>
> J. R. Okajima
>

Thanks for the help, the remount with noxino seems to be working here
and root (/) is no longer busy now :)


Thanks,
Nitin.

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