On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:50, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> About a week ago we brought an SL302-based
> file server online with a 3ware SATA RAID
> controller.  Since then we have had several
> of our NFS clients (compute servers) lock up
> after a kernel panic with a bunch of these
> errors on the console:
> 
> VFS: busy inodes after unmount: self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...

If you have something like "silly_delete" in the Oops, this could be a
known bug supposedly fixed in the Update5 kernel (which also is supposed
to fix a bunch of other NFS problems, i.e. same as the SDR kernel).
Regards
Jan


> We haven't seen this with RH7.1, 7.3 or 8.0 srevers.
> The affected clients are all at RH8.
> 
> I couldn't find anything at RedHat's bugzilla on
> this.
> 
> Anyone else see this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Miles