Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:11:25 -0500 | From | Erez Zadok <> | Subject | Re: unionfs and sys_readahead |
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In message <1194468220.5538.10.camel@albrecht.rdi1.com>, Paul Albrecht writes: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:53 +0000, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:01, Paul Albrecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Whenever I use readahead-list on a union mounted file system I get a > > > segfault and kernel oops so I'm wondering whether or not the linux > > > unionfs supports sys_readahead. > > > > > > Anyone know? I'm not usually subscribed to the lkml so please cc me in > > > your response. Thanks. > > > > Please show actual oops output. > > > > Also: what kernel version do you use? any extra patch(es) applied? .config? > > I'm using a stock generic kernel that's shipped with ubuntu. Here's my > dmesg output containing two oops. The first occurs during boot and the > second happens whenever I run readahead-list from the command line > against a file list containing an entry in a union mounted filesystem: [...]
> [ 25.551441] Registering unionfs 1.4
The problem appears most likely because this version of Ubuntu is still using the very old Unionfs 1.x. I wasn't able to reproduce the bug with the latest Unionfs 2.x. I'm in touch with the Ubuntu guys to try and help them move to 2.x.
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