Re: 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 (and earlier?) mount problem (?)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> 
> I was experiencing strange problem with mm tree since at least 2.6.4-mm?. 
> My Gentoo startup scripts can mount root filesystem and all virtual 
> filesystems (procfs, sysfs, tmpfs, usbfs, devpts) but nothing more. Mount 
> fails for all other disk filesystems (ext3, vfat, ntfs) with EBUSY (or 
> -EBUSY if you like).

Sounds like something is keeping the block device busy with an exclusive 
open. But it would be easier to guess if you can specify a but more 
closely on exactly when this changed:

>				But it seems that changes in mm that 
> broke things for me were incorporated in mainline 2.6 somewhere between 
> 2.6.5 and 2.6.6, because I recently tried 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 and got the same 
> error.

So 2.6.5 works, and 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 does not?

Can you check rc1/rc2 and then pinpoint it to a particular day?

		Linus
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