From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Regression- XFS won't mount on partitioned md array Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:20:48 +0100 Message-ID: <482EF7D0.2030309@dgreaves.com> References: <482DC043.5000307@dgreaves.com> <482DCCCD.8020503@dgreaves.com> <6101e8c40805161135w7470123uaac93ca59caee026@mail.gmail.com> <482EF026.9000206@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <482EF026.9000206@dgreaves.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Oliver Pinter Cc: Justin Piszcz , David Chinner , LinuxRaid , xfs@oss.sgi.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Eric Sandeen List-Id: linux-raid.ids David Greaves wrote: > Oliver Pinter wrote: >> this[1] patch fixed? >> >> 1: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=blob;f=queue-2.6.25/block-do_mounts-accept-root-non-existant-partition.patch;h=097cda9928b434994dbb157065b2ca38e7cec3a1;hb=8cc4c3b370d59deb16c2e92165a466c82e914020 > > > Looks like a possible candidate - thanks. > > I think this patch is for mounting root on an md device when the partitions > aren't yet initialised. > > However: > * When I run cfdisk I can read the partition table. > * Subsequent attempts to mount the xfs when /proc/partitions is clearly present > still fail. > >> this patch is for 2.6.25.5 kernel > ? there isn't a 2.6.25.5 Sorry, I understand; it's queued for 2.6.25.5. > It doesn't apply to 2.6.25.4 > > I'll see if I can make it apply... Yep - it was download corruption. Applied but it didn't help. David