Re: mount hangs

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
--
Seth
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