Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:47:14 +0800 (SGT) | From | Jeff Chua <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19-pre7: rootfs mounted twice |
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > 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 > > This _could_ happen in past - as the matter of fact, I can reproduce it > on any 2.4 kernel. Mount something over the root of already mounted > filesystem and watch the show. > > Now, we could disable showing rootfs in /proc/mounts and it might be a > good idea for 2.4, I'm not all that sure that it's a right thing, though.
This happens all the time if you use initrd ramdisk and switch to hard disk during boot up.
2.4.19-pre6 is ok, but 2.4.19-pre7 is not.
Jeff.
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