vold holds raw device

From: Marek Grinberg (marek.grinberg@tele2.se)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 05:05:02 EST


Hello,

In a Sun V240 I have installed Solaris 10.
Before starting Sybase 12.5 install, I have created two raw devices
c0t0d0s3 & c0t0d0s4.
Then I did:
chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
chown sybase:staff /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4

Sybase install errors off while creating master device:
kernel Checked out license ASE_DEV
kernel Adaptive Server Enterprise Developer Edition
kernel basis_dsizecheck: attempt to open device '/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3'
failed, system error is: Device busy
kernel kistartup: Unable to create master device

I have investigated who holds the device:
# fuser /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3: 443o
# ps -ef | grep 443
root 1276 1274 0 13:22:27 pts/3 0:00 grep 443
root 443 1 0 mar 05 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/vold

Why does vold hold the raw device ?

Regards,

Marek Grinberg
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