On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > After attempting to run 2.4.2, and killing all my hard disks, I
> > > have finally gotten 2.4.1 back up. There is a continual problem
> > > that even exists on 2.4.1, that will show if you execute this.
> > > However, unmount your hard disks before you execute this simple
> > > harmless script.
> > >
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1k count=1440
> > > /sbin/mke2fs -Fq /dev/ram0 1440
> > > mount -t ext2 /dev/ram0 /mnt
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1k count=1000
> > > ls -la /mnt
> > > umount /mnt
> > >
> > > The first time you execute it, fine. It runs. The second time, you
> > > get:
> > >
> > > Mar 7 10:29:00 chaos last message repeated 11 times
> > > Mar 7 10:29:00 chaos kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 631
> > > Mar 7 10:30:32 chaos kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 41
> >
> > Hmmm.. no problem here.
I think I've figured it out.. at least I've found a way to reproduce
the exact errors to the last detail and some pretty nasty corruption
to go with it. The operator must help though.. a lot ;-)
If you do mount -o remount /dev/somedisk / thinking that that will get
rid of your /dev/ram0 root, that isn't the case, and you will corrupt
the device you remounted (I did it to a scratch monkey) very badly when
you write to the still mounted ramdisk.
You must exec a shell (or something) chrooted to your mounted harddisk
to un-busy the old root and then pivot_root/unmount that old root. I
tested this, and all is well.
I think this is a consequence of the multiple mount changes.. not sure.
(ergo cc to Al Viro.. he knows eeeeverything about mount points)
-Mike
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