RE: PROBLEM: ext2/mount - multiple mounts corrupts inodes

[Kris Urquhart]

> From: Alexander Viro [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:05 PM
> 
> > + grep /mnt/hd
> > + cat /proc/mounts
> > /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd ext2 rw 0 0
> > + find /mnt/hd -ls
> >      2    1 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Dec 
> 31 15:17 /mnt/hd
> >     11   12 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Dec 31 15:17
> > /mnt/hd/lost+found
> > find: /mnt/hd/tar: Input/output error
> > find: /mnt/hd/zcat: Input/output error
> 
> WTF???  Very interesting...  What about kernel messages?  It 
> looks like
> stat(2) failing.

Yes, please see my recent reply to Andreas Dilger.

> Just in case - could you put the same find before the second 
> attempt of
> mount?
> 

+ find /mnt/hd -ls
     2    1 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Dec 31 23:42 /mnt/hd
    11   12 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Dec 31 23:42
/mnt/hd/lost+found
    12  149 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       150796 Dec 31 23:42
/mnt/hd/tar
    13   52 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        51228 Dec 31 23:42
/mnt/hd/zcat
+ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd
mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /mnt/hd busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /mnt/hd
+ cat /proc/mounts
+ grep /mnt/hd
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hd ext2 rw 0 0
+ find /mnt/hd -ls
     2    1 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Dec 31 23:42 /mnt/hd
    11   12 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Dec 31 23:42
/mnt/hd/lost+found
find: /mnt/hd/tar: Input/output error
find: /mnt/hd/zcat: Input/output error