On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 06:40:56PM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:07:53 +0200 > "Ian D. Leroux" <[email protected]> wrote: > > As it turns out, I don't need shutdown to trigger the hang, umount is > > enough. Specifically, > > > > umount -f /dev > > > > Causes an immediate hang with the same kernel error message > > Have you considered the possibility that having your devices on a > mounted FS is just asking for trouble? I'm not sure but I think that I > would be surprised if I made all my devices suddenly disappear and it > didn't hang. Why do you have it on a mounted FS anyway?
As written, that's done automatically by init if /dev is not populated with devices. That is a common setup for ramdisks and read-only root installations. It must not be broken. Joerg
