Re: Processes not waiting for kerneld

Henrik Storner (storner@osiris.ping.dk)
Wed, 1 May 1996 08:34:56 +0200


In linux.kernel you write:

>It appears that mount isn't waiting for kerneld anymore. I don't know if
>this is a bug in mount or in the kernel. However, it did work with an older
>version of both.

>What happens is that trying to mount a WIN95 or UMSDOS or simply MSDOS
>partition doesn't work at the first try. However, kerneld does load the
>modules and trying for the second time the mount works well, unless of
>course I wait too long and the module has been removed already.

>Is this a kernel bug? Or do I have to look into mount itself?

I don't see this problem, using 1.3.97 and kerneld from the 1.3.69f
release. This points to differences in the mount program - mine is
from the util-linux 2.5 distribution, I think - but I cannot see
how that should be able to make a difference.

Odd.