Funky Mount Problem...

[Jerry LeVan]

Hi,

I am using SuperDuper to back up my various disk partitions/macs.

On my MacBookPro I backup to a partition of a largeish firewire
disk ( three partitions for three drives) The name of the partition
is MBP

When ever I turn on the drive I get too many open files, mostly
from notifyd

(Sorry for the wrapping)
[mbp:~]$ sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/MBP
Password:
kextd      25         root    3r      REG      14,4       1667     
35588 /Volumes/MBP/usr/standalone/bootcaches.plist
notifyd    62         root   11r      DIR      14,4       8602     
81417 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/Extensions
notifyd    62         root   12r      REG      14,4    8570180    
890899 /Volumes/MBP/mach_kernel
notifyd    62         root   13r      REG      14,4        338    
448164 /Volumes/MBP/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ 
com.apple.Boot.plist
notifyd    62         root   14r      REG      14,4    8878040    
142322 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/Extensions.mkext
notifyd    62         root   15r      REG      14,4     272585     
81233 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
notifyd    62         root   16r      DIR      14,4       1088         
2 /Volumes/MBP
notifyd    62         root   17r      REG      14,4        490     
81231 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
notifyd    62         root   18r      REG      14,4        329    
890920 /Volumes/MBP/System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label
mds       159         root   19u      REG      14,4     151552    
890912 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/store.db
mds       159         root   20u      REG      14,4     151552    
890913 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/.store.db
mds       159         root   21u      REG      14,4          0    
890914 /Volumes/MBP/.Spotlight-V100/.journalHistoryLog
Finder    515        jerry   16r      DIR      14,4         68    
894468 /Volumes/MBP/.Trashes/501

If I examine other volumes I do NOT get the kextd and notifyd  files  
auto opened!
(But the spotlight files are opened

If I try to use the Finder to unmount /Volumes/MBP I get a failure  
because of open files.

I can use "umount -fv /Volumes/MBP" to unmount the (backup) Volume  
but turning off
the drive power gives a warning about the drive not being being  
properly put away.
(and disk utility believes the drive is still mounted after the  
umount command).

The mac book pro is the only computer who backup volume has this  
problem. All
of the other computers can cleanly dismount their backup volumes.

I am  using the latest everything software....

Can anyone give me a clue as to why notifyd would want to open the  
above files for the
mac book pro and not for two other macs I am backing up?

Jerry