Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.8.1 [u]

From: Martin Schlemmer [c]
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 15:42:24 EST


On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 06:32, John McCutchan wrote:

Hi

> I am resubmitting inotify for comments and review. Inotify has
> changed drastically from the earlier proposal that Al Viro did not
> approve of. There is no longer any use of (device number, inode number)
> pairs. Please give this version of inotify a fresh view.
>

I applied this to 2.6.8.1 and most of -mm4's patches - it applied
cleanly and compiled fine.

I use devicemapper to stripe two 80gb sata drives on intel sata
controller, using initramfs.

Now when I boot, I see something like:

---
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
inotify device opened
dm ioctl error or such
---

Which then results in a panic as the dm volumes cannot be setup
and no / found by kernel. So basically it seems like inotify
mess with dm in some way or other - any quick ideas what it
could be?

I do not have serial console, so if you need a more complete log,
just let me know from where abouts I should start, and if any
debugging should be turned on, etc.


Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer

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