"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just looked at a recent hsfs patch (Solaris 9, but the relevant code is the
> same on
> OpenSolaris - just checked), and noticed the README said to reboot after
> installing.
> So of course I looked to see if there was a workaround...
>
> # modinfo|grep hsfs
> 145 78178000 72d7 9 1 hsfs (filesystem for HSFS)
> # modunload -i 145
> can't unload the module: Device busy
>
> Then I looked at both the Solaris 8 FCS and the OpenSolaris code:
>
> from hsfs_vfsops.c:
>
> int
> _fini()
> {
> return (EBUSY);
> }
>
> Now, that's just rude. I mean, why can't a reference count be maintained
> (by hsfs_mount(), hsfs_unmount(), and maybe one or two others) so that
> modunload would be permitted whenver thereference count was zero?
> Granted it might actually take a bit more than that, but I'd like to think it
> still wouldn't be too hard.
hsfs is not a clean implementation.....
Cleaning it up may be a serious amount of work....
Jörg
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