Re: XFS does not recognise mount options in 2.6.27-rc6

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Sep 15 2008 - 10:22:49 EST


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:15:33AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:53:21PM +0000, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > In 2.6.27-rc6, XFS still does not recognise mount options like logbufs and
> > others. Because of this, at boot time it fails to mount the partitions rw,
> > making the system unusable.
> >
> > Some time ago, it seems a patch was about to be committed, but apparently
> > this has not been done yet:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/14/340
>
> The fix is in:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=62a877e35d5085c65936ed3194d1bbaf84f419e1
>
> if you still see problems please give me the exact mount / remount
> commands that cause you problems.

Actuallt sorry - that was the patch causing the problem. The fix (or
workaround) for it is still stuck in the sgi xfs tree:

http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xaiki/xfs-linux-2.6-xfs-cvs/.git;a=commitdiff;h=c6c050dbdcd1e3213f941b9201b49efabf4d687e
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