Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 10:34:46 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:18:45PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > /etc/fstab, perhaps? That definitely looks like two mount(2) had to
> > have been done to cause that...
>
> Yeah, but how does one go about doing that?
>
> Using mount -f, I can convince mount to succeed, but I still have only
> one entry in /proc/mounts, despite what my mount binary imagines.

Huh?
-f Causes everything to be done except for the actual system call;
if it's not obvious, this ``fakes'' mounting the file system.
This option is useful in conjunction with the -v flag to deter-
mine what the mount command is trying to do. It can also be used
to add entries for devices that were mounted earlier with the -n

What are you talking about?

The interesting part is why mount(2) doesn't fail with -EBUSY on that
overmounting. Is there anything else mounted on /sys? That, or any
interesting patches applied to the tree (fs/sysfs/mount.c, fs/namespace.c)
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