Re: CDROM is and isn't mounted
Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:58:19 +0200
On Tue, Oct 05 1999, Robert K. Nelson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05 1999, Robert K. Nelson wrote:
> > > In any case, it would be nice to have a way to
> > > force the mount and usage status of a drive to be made consistant.
> >
> > That would be fixing the symptom, not the real bug. Are you
> > sure that this is a usage count problem?
> >
> No, I'm not sure. I think the problem is likely in VMWare. But I don't
> mind fixing the symptom if it allows me to recover without a reboot.
> I'm using Linux in production systems and even when something like this
> goes wrong I want to recover gracefully. An equivalent in other
> subsystems is the work of the NFS group to resolve inconsistancies that
> creep into network mount tables.
The problem with fixing the symptom here (and in other cases) is
that then the real bug rarely gets fixed. As has been said more
than one time here today, tell vmware about the bug or reproduce
it without vmware loaded and send me a way to do so.
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
* http://www.kernel.dk
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