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To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel 2.4.20 option CONFIG_BLK_STATS breaks /proc/partitons
 so "mount" can't mount devices by UUID.
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:24:50AM +0100, jiri.wichern@hccnet.nl wrote:
>
> > Short description of the problem: You can't mount hard drive
> > volumes by using their UUID number when also using extra
> > statistics for your block devices by the CONFIG_BLK_STATS
> > kernel option.
>
> Yes, we know.
> You use an old version of mount, and the mount will always fail.
>
> Two solutions:
> (i) Do not use CONFIG_BLK_STATS.
> (ii) Upgrade mount to a recent version (mount is part of util-linux,
> recent is for example 2.11y).
>
> Note that solution (ii) gives you a situation where mount and fdisk
> fail sporadically instead of always, maybe not precisely what one
> had hoped. Thus, (i) is the preferred solution.
>
> It was really bad that CONFIG_BLK_STATS went into 2.4.20,
> but you need not use it.

Hi Andries,

Could you please expand on the "sporadically" so we can inform the user in
a better way when he should not use CONFIG_BLK_STATS ?

Mentioning that a newer util-linux is one good thing to be done.
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