Re: invalidate: busy buffer

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:26:40AM +0200, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:
> When parted does something, *anything*, i receive lots and lots of lines
> with this message "invalidate: busy buffer".
> 
> What does it mean?

It's a "bug".  Parted flushes the cache lots, because linux has lots
of cache-coherency problems.

Unfortunately, Parted flushes the cache of all partitions... even
irrelevant and mounted ones.  Linux thinks that's stupid (which it is),
and writes that message.  Franck sent me a patch, IIRC, but I haven't
had time to look/apply yet :/

Red Hat has a patch for the kernel to quieten it.

Cheers,
Andrew