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From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Cc: szabi@inf.elte.hu (BERECZ Szabolcs), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2  keeps flooding
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 02:00:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010513020053.B7635@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105121921550.11973-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <E14yis0-0004c9-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14yis0-0004c9-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:32:20AM +0100

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:32:20AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# cat /proc/mounts
> > > /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
> > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# swapon /dev/hdb2
> > 
> > - Doctor, it hurts when I do it!
> > - Don't do it, then.
> > 
> > Just what behaviour had you expected?
> 
> EBUSY would be somewhat nicer.

I suppose the return will be EINVAL when there is no swap signature.
But the mistake is doing set_blocksize too early. (Even twice. Why?)
We should first check whether things are OK before starting to make changes.

Andries

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-13  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-12 23:00 mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-05-12 23:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-12 23:32   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 23:42     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-13 13:04       ` Jesse Pollard
2001-05-13  0:00     ` Guest section DW [this message]
2001-05-12 23:33   ` BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-05-12 23:39     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-12 23:54       ` BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-05-13 14:21       ` Gerhard Mack
2001-05-13 16:23       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14  9:29     ` 2.2.19 and RAID levels Riccardo Facchetti
2001-05-14  9:30       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 23:25 ` mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding Matthew Dharm
2001-05-12 23:42   ` BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-05-13  2:17 ` ashridah

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