[Gllug] Problem with loop-mounted ISO files for Jigdo

[Richard Huxton]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 23:11, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Tue 13 Apr, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 17:20, Chris Bell wrote:
> > >    I followed the instructions for Jigdo which suggest that I can halt
> > > the build at any point using Ctrl-C, starting to compile each new ISO
> > > in turn from some of the loop-mounted originals, followed by Ctrl-C,
> > > but have then hit a problem trying to umount those original ISOs and
> > > loop-mount the rest, getting the error message that the mounted ISO
> > > files are still in use and can not be unmounted.
> >
> > Never heard of this Jigdo, but I'm guessing you have a process with its
> > CWD inside a mountpoint. To be sure, you could try:
> >   lsof | grep /path/to/mountpoint
>
>    Thanks for the suggestion, although that did not return anything. (?)

Hmm - that is puzzling. If lsof shows nothing using files on the mount, 
presumably it's something in a kernel module. Worth checking again though.

>    Jigdo (jigsaw downloader) allows you to download a skeleton ISO
[snip]

Ah - sounds interesting. I can see how you might use it to update from a Beta1 
ISO to Beta2 etc.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd
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