Re: Problem with inotify

[Robert Love]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:54 +0200, David GÃmez wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> On Jul 01 at 04:25:15, Robert Love wrote:
> > > either introduced by inotify or just made more likely (i.e. 100% of time) 
> > > by inotify but the change is elsewhere.
> > 
> > The mount case is baffling.  Inotify has no interaction whatsoever with
> > mounting.  Unmounting, definitely--see fs/inotify.c ::
> > inotify_unmount_inodes().
> 
> Good news are that it seems unrelated to inotify. I updated to 2.6.13-rc1, and
> tested it with and without the inotify patch. Now I get the mount process
> hanged in inode_wait with the vanilla kernel, and working perfectly with the
> patched one. Weird...

Sorry to hear that your problem continues, but glad to hear that it is
not inotify.  I was baffled by a lockup in mount; it made no sense.

Good luck finding a fix!

	Robert Love


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