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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: blkid oddities with stale devices in the cache
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:40:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080706184056.GB26084@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48704BB9.1090501@redhat.com>

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:36:09PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > This is w.r.t. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452333
> > 
> > Dave had a few stale entries in blkid.tab; label from a usb key showed
> > up under several non-existent, stale device names.  fstab had LABEL=,
> > mounting by label failed because blkid returned a stale, nonexistent device.
> 
> Ted, ping (when you're done kernel-wrangling anyway)?  Any thoughts on
> this?  Returning cached data for a device when stat says ENOENT seems
> very weird (and wrong).

Check out what I just pushed out to the git repository.  I think this
should solve the problems people have been reporting....

       	     	 	  	      	   - Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-21  4:59 blkid oddities with stale devices in the cache Eric Sandeen
2008-07-06  4:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-06 18:40   ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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