From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: blkid oddities with stale devices in the cache Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:40:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20080706184056.GB26084@mit.edu> References: <485C8AAE.5020005@redhat.com> <48704BB9.1090501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ext4 development To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:35151 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756975AbYGFSlR (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:41:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48704BB9.1090501@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:36:09PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: > > This is w.r.t. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452333 > > > > Dave had a few stale entries in blkid.tab; label from a usb key showed > > up under several non-existent, stale device names. fstab had LABEL=, > > mounting by label failed because blkid returned a stale, nonexistent device. > > Ted, ping (when you're done kernel-wrangling anyway)? Any thoughts on > this? Returning cached data for a device when stat says ENOENT seems > very weird (and wrong). Check out what I just pushed out to the git repository. I think this should solve the problems people have been reporting.... - Ted