From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:46:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id lBIDkhR5002469 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:46:47 -0800 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:44 +1100 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: xfs mknod regression Message-ID: <20071218134644.GO4396912@sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Bret Towe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:48:40PM -0800, Bret Towe wrote: > I hit a bug in 2.6.24-rc looks to be in 2.6.23 also so not sure how > long it's been there > with an xfs filesystem pbuilder has an issue using device files it > makes for chroot > the mknod command looks to work fine the file is created > however when attempting to use one of the created files you see > something like the below > > ghoststar dev # echo "hi" > null > bash: null: No such device or address > ghoststar dev # ls -l null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-12-17 20:34 null > ghoststar dev # ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-05 17:29 /dev/null > ghoststar dev # echo "hi" > /dev/null > ghoststar dev # Ok. Works on 2.6.22. doesn't work on latest xfsdev. I'll look into it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group