Pierre Rousselet writes:
> Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>
> > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> > devfs: devfs_do_symlink(root): could not append to parent, err: -17
> > change_root: old root has d_count=2
>
> try booting with devfs=nomount as devfs is not properly configured on
> your system.
No, the problem is that he needs to apply the latest devfs patch. Some
of these problems have been fixed weeks ago. Grab devfs-patch-v199.7
and apply the appended patch as well. Let me know how it goes. I want
to release a new patch ASAP.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
diff -urN linux-2.5.3-pre2/fs/devfs/base.c linux/fs/devfs/base.c
--- linux-2.5.3-pre2/fs/devfs/base.c Mon Jan 14 10:40:29 2002
+++ linux/fs/devfs/base.c Sun Jan 20 12:09:55 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/* devfs (Device FileSystem) driver.
- Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Richard Gooch
+ Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Richard Gooch
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
@@ -604,6 +604,9 @@
20020113 Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
Fixed (rare, old) race in <devfs_lookup>.
v1.9
+ 20020120 Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>
+ Fixed deadlock bug in <devfs_d_revalidate_wait>.
+ v1.10
*/
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
@@ -636,7 +639,7 @@
#include <asm/bitops.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
-#define DEVFS_VERSION "1.9 (20020113)"
+#define DEVFS_VERSION "1.10 (20020120)"
#define DEVFS_NAME "devfs"
@@ -2878,13 +2881,16 @@
struct devfs_lookup_struct *lookup_info = dentry->d_fsdata;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE (wait, current);
- if ( !dentry->d_inode && is_devfsd_or_child (fs_info) )
+ if ( is_devfsd_or_child (fs_info) )
{
devfs_handle_t de = lookup_info->de;
struct inode *inode;
- DPRINTK (DEBUG_I_LOOKUP, "(%s): dentry: %p de: %p by: \"%s\"\n",
- dentry->d_name.name, dentry, de, current->comm);
+ DPRINTK (DEBUG_I_LOOKUP,
+ "(%s): dentry: %p inode: %p de: %p by: \"%s\"\n",
+ dentry->d_name.name, dentry, dentry->d_inode, de,
+ current->comm);
+ if (dentry->d_inode) return 1;
if (de == NULL)
{
read_lock (&parent->u.dir.lock);
-
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