At 18:05 3-10-2002 -1000, Sidik Isani wrote:
Hello -
but attempting to mount without read-only still hangs, apparently
indefinitely (there's no activity on the machine.) The version
of mount is 2.11u, and we're running the CVS kernel. It's a bit
scary to think we're going to have to reformat all our filesystems
if we need/want to upgrade beyond 2.4.16? Any idea what is going
on? Again, xfs_repair now says this is a perfectly consistent
filesystem, so this shouldn't be happening.
The only change to the filesystem over history has been a change in the
logformat. I have a box here that even saw the 2.4.0-test kernels and it
still reports no problems and mounts just fine.
One thing that does apply is that you _need_ to have a cleanly unmounted
partition to be able to mount it with a newer kernel. And it is in the same
time frame as the kernels you are using.
I think something in the log-part of the filesystem may be playing up.
After cleanly unmounting the filesystem you might try zerooing the log
using xfs_repair -L
It's a hunch though and nothing more.
Cheers
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Seth
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