Re: 2.4.19-pre7: rootfs mounted twice

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:15:40 EST


Hi!

> > dreher@karpfen:~ > df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > rootfs 7060308 6276188 425472 94% /
>
> df(1) is wrong. There is (see /proc/mounts below) rootfs mounted as
> root (ramfs, actually) and ext3 mounted over it. df sees two entries
> in /etc/mtab (on your box - /proc/mounts) with mountpoint "/" and
> does statfs("/", &buf); for both. Surprise, surprise, results of
> two calls of statf2(2) are identical - what with arguments being
> the same both times - and refer to the filesystem where your "/"
> lives. I.e. to ext3.

df might be wrong, but lets say that this /proc/mounts become
interesting. This could not have happened in the past. That means you
changed kernel interface in stable series, and that's wrong.

> > /dev/root 7060308 6276188 425472 94% /
> > /dev/hda4 3794936 3042316 559840 84% /home
> >
> > dreher@karpfen:~ > cat /proc/mounts
> > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> > /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
> > proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> > /dev/hda4 /home ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
> > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0

                                                                        Pavel

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