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hi,

i've run into a problem on ubuntu 14.04 while mounting an ganeti
instance for doing some chroot stuff. but the problem itself not related
to ganeti or any other virtualization. its just a problem while
mounting/unmounting some devices.

so heres an example how to reproduce the problem:

lvcreate -L 1G -n test system
lvcreate -L 1G -n test2 system
mkfs.ext4 /dev/system/test
mkfs.ext4 /dev/system/test2
mount /dev/system/test /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/test2
mount /dev/system/test2 /mnt/test2/
ln -sf /etc/issue /mnt/
umount /mnt/*
umount /mnt/
lvremove -f /dev/system/test2
lvremove -f /dev/system/test

if i run this commands /mnt/ is still mounted and it is only possible to
umount it using "-l" switch. but after this it is still not possible to
remove the logical volume because it says "Logical volume system/test
contains a filesystem in use."

if i run the same commands but without the "ln -sf /etc/issue /mnt/"
everything is okay. also if i replace "umount /mnt/*" with "umount
/mnt/boot" everything works.

so it seems like umount ist opening /etc/issue for some reason if a bash
wildcard is used and not releasing it. checking with lsof or fuser does
not show any open files under /mnt/ nor for /etc/issue.

the problem does not exist with ubuntu 12.04.

a solution for this problem would be great because if you often do some
chroot stuff it is easier to use "umount /mnt/*" to umount all bind
mounts like /proc/ or /sys/ than running a umount command for each
mount.

also i havent found a way, other than reboot, to remove an open logical
volume if it was hit by this problem.


lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:        14.04


regards
the2nd

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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using umount with bash wildcard ends in "device is busy" for mount of parent directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1358310
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