Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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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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