Ofcourse I'm very interested in making sure that ext2 CD-ROMs work
as they should in 2.2.x, but I'm having a hard time locating the
problem as they work fine here... Could someone enlighten me and
possibly provide test cases that show the problem?
PJ wrote:
>
> WEll I finally found a way to make my ext2 cdroms mount under the development
> kernels.
>
> noname-root:~#mount -t ext2 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> noname-root:~#mount -o loop /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> noname-root:~#mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom type ext2 (ro,loop=/dev/loop0)
>
> noname-root:~#df
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sda2 707556 621650 49359 93% /
> /dev/hda1 2028098 714591 1208685 37% /mnt/hda1
> /dev/sr0 529445 529347 98 100% /mnt/cdrom
>
> This is very strange and I don't understand it.
>
> An strace of mount -t ext2 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom shows:
>
> mount("/dev/cdrom", "/mnt/cdrom", "ext2", MS_RDONLY|0xc0ed0000, 0x8051fb0) = -1
> EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> Why should I have to use the loopback device ?
>
> WWWWEEEEIIIRRRRDDDD !
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * "The only thing that interferes with my * learning is my education." -- A. Einstein
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