This message:

    http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-25/0990.html

said:

    "2.4.3-12 although seems to have the reiserfs unmount lock race, 
    "so I can't use it... :("

And a searc for "unmount lock race" on 

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?1=reiserfs&r=1&w=2

Brought up some interesting messages.  I dunno...  I'd go looking for more recent "stuff" (kernel, rfs) and see if that helps.

    Wayne

On Sat, 28 July 2001, "foodog" wrote:

> 
> Wayne Conrad wrote:
> Right now it's got kernel 2.4.3-12.  I *still* haven't got around to
> reading the docs...  I didn't work today though :-)
> Steve
> > 
> > What version of the kernel are you running, Steve?
> > 
> > On Thu, 26 July 2001, "foodog" wrote:
> > > I'm bringing up a server to run CommuniGate Pro (nice, BTW) under RH 7.1
> > > and was wondering if anyone has heard of this offhand:  at shutdown, if
> > > I haven't dismounted the reiserfs partition the system hangs trying to
> > > unmount filesystems.
> > >
> > > I admittedly haven't RTFM. If the infernal Windows viruses will give me
> > > a break for 10 minutes I hope to today :(
> > >
> > > It's a 75GB partition, the fstab entry is
> > >
> > > /dev/sda11   /var/CommuniGate   reiserfs   defaults  1 2
> > >
> > > Thanks for taking a look :-)
> > >
> > > Steve
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