Re: [2.4.8-ac5 and earlier] fatal mount-problem

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 06:42:24 EST


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > (as modules) and you do the same mount again on the same (not unmounted)
> > > device, the mount-programm hangs up and never comes back. It doesn't
> > > recognize, that the device is allready mounted.
> >
> > strace, please. -ac5 and 2.4.9 have the same code in fs/super.c, so

Aha. They actually don't (sorry - I was thinking of 2.4.7-ac5), but...
> > I really wonder what the hell is happening...
>
> Duplicated here with 2.4.8-ac6
> Booted with ide-scsi as the cd driver

I can't reproduce it with /dev/hda and /dev/hdd (ide-disk and ide-cd resp.)
here. I'll build kernel with ide-scsi and see what's going on with that.

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