Re: 2.4.9-ac12 - problem mounting reiserfs (parse error?)

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>]

On Sep 19, 2001  12:04 -0700, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> I also have reiserfs mounts from /etc/fstab failing in 2.4.9-ac12, so
> I straced the mount process.  With options "defaults" in /etc/fstab,
> "mount /usr/local" does:
> 
>   mount("/dev/hde8", "/usr/local", "reiserfs", 0xc0ed0000, 0x80597a8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Could you run gdb on your mount and show us what *data contains at this
point (last parameter).  According to man(8) "defaults" expands to
"rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async".  You could also try putting
all of these in /etc/fstab explicitly and remove them one at a time
until we find which one it is complaining about.  Either mount(8)
shouldn't be appending this option to the mount data, or reiserfs
needs to parse it in the kernel.

> While "mount /dev/hde8 /usr/local" gives:
> 
>   mount("/dev/hde8", "/usr/local", "reiserfs", 0xc0ed0000, 0) = 0

Works OK, no option data passed.

> But with the options "notail" in /etc/fstab, "mount /usr/local" does:
> 
>   mount("/dev/hde8", "/usr/local", "reiserfs", 0xc0ed0000, 0x806d3e0) = 0

Works OK, has "notail" but not any other options from "defaults".

Cheers, Andreas
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