Re: Mount probing not silent. Internal error xfs_sb_read_verify at line 726

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 07:24:30AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2013.05.07 at 10:23 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I think that mount needs fixing, not XFS. mount needs to be doing
> > silent mounts when doing this brute forcing, not noisy, explicit
> > mounts that we expect to throw errors if there is a problem.

 Good idea. Fixed.

> > BTW, strace indicates that MS_SILENT is not being used during brute
> > force mounts:
> > 
> > # strace -vx mount /dev/vdb /mnt/scratch/ 2>&1 |grep ^mount
> > mount("/dev/vdb", "/mnt/scratch/", "reiserfs", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 
> > EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> > mount("/dev/vdb", "/mnt/scratch/", "ext3", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EINVAL 
> > (Invalid argument)
> > mount("/dev/vdb", "/mnt/scratch/", "ext2", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EINVAL 
> > (Invalid argument)
> > mount("/dev/vdb", "/mnt/scratch/", "ext4", MS_MGC_VAL, NULL) = -1 EINVAL 
> > (Invalid argument)
> > ....
> > 
> > So this really looks like a bug in mount, not the filesystem handling
> > of slient mounts...
> 
> So, lets CC util-linux...

 Thanks.

    Karel

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