Re: XFS filesystem claims to be mounted after a disconnect

[Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>]

Please do a "ps -ef" before umount to see if the unmount is hung.

--Mark.

On 05/02/14 10:07, Eric Sandeen wrote:
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> On 5/2/14, 8:47 AM, Martin Papik wrote:
> > I ran into a problem using XFS. The USB device on which I have an XFS
> > file system got disconnected and xfs_repair and xfs_check fail with a
> > message saying the file system is mounted writable. There is no entry
> > in /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts. However I see messages in the kernel log
> > (dmesg) about write failures to the disconnected drive.
> platform_check_iswritable() and platform_check_ismounted() in xfsprogs check
> these things.
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> platform_check_ismounted() does a ustat() of the block device,
> "ustat() returns  information  about  a mounted file system"
> and it knows if it's mounted or not,
> "EINVAL: dev does not refer to a device containing a mounted file system."
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> so something, somewhere thinks it's mounted.  Check /proc/mounts?
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> > Please let me know what I can do short of zeroing the log, which I
> > believe would result in some data loss.
> Hate to say it, but a reboot may be simplest.  Zeroing the log won't
> help.  OTOH, if you lost USB connectivity, you already lost some data.
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> - -Eric
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> > Martin

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