Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 15:11:40 EST


On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:34 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:18:45PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > /etc/fstab, perhaps? That definitely looks like two mount(2) had to
> > > have been done to cause that...
> >
> > Yeah, but how does one go about doing that?
> >
> > Using mount -f, I can convince mount to succeed, but I still have only
> > one entry in /proc/mounts, despite what my mount binary imagines.
>
> Huh?
> -f Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call;
> if it's not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system.
> This option is useful in conjunction with the -v flag to deter-
> mine what the mount command is trying to do. It can also be used
> to add entries for devices that were mounted earlier with the -n
>
> What are you talking about?

Me? My binary lost touch with reality, but I couldn't induce it to
produce two /proc/mount entries. I thought that's what I said.

-Mike

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