linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] remount ro on loopback mount leaves unmountable filesystem behind

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 06:23:40 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] remount ro on loopback mount leaves unmountable
	filesystem behind

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:50:47PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> Same thing, but remounting the loop filesystem readonly
> before unmounting:
> 
> $ mount -t xfs /dev/sdb6 /mnt/scratch
> $ mkdir /mnt/scratch/mnt
> $ touch /mnt/scratch/img
> $ mkfs.xfs -f -d file,name=/mnt/scratch/img,size=1g
> $ mount -t xfs -o loop /mnt/scratch/img /mnt/scratch/mnt
> $ mount -t xfs -o remount,ro /mnt/scratch/img /mnt/scratch/mnt
> $ umount /mnt/scratch/mnt
> $ umount /mnt/scratch
> umount: /mnt/scratch: device is busy
> umount: /mnt/scratch: device is busy

This is a problem in mount, no the kernel.  Before the remount the
/etc mtab looks something like this:

/qemu/test.img /mnt xfs rw,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0

and after it looks something like this:

/qemu/test.img /mnt xfs ro 0 0

As a workaround do a losetup -d /dev/loop0 after unmounting the
filesystem.

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