Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263162AbUDZSTk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:19:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263164AbUDZSTj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:19:39 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:10937 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263162AbUDZSTh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:19:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Grzegorz Kulewski cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , raven@themaw.net Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 (and earlier?) mount problem (?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040426013944.49a105a8.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 29 On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > > I was experiencing strange problem with mm tree since at least 2.6.4-mm?. > My Gentoo startup scripts can mount root filesystem and all virtual > filesystems (procfs, sysfs, tmpfs, usbfs, devpts) but nothing more. Mount > fails for all other disk filesystems (ext3, vfat, ntfs) with EBUSY (or > -EBUSY if you like). Sounds like something is keeping the block device busy with an exclusive open. But it would be easier to guess if you can specify a but more closely on exactly when this changed: > But it seems that changes in mm that > broke things for me were incorporated in mainline 2.6 somewhere between > 2.6.5 and 2.6.6, because I recently tried 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 and got the same > error. So 2.6.5 works, and 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 does not? Can you check rc1/rc2 and then pinpoint it to a particular day? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/