From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756392AbXLRNrK (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:47:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755152AbXLRNq5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:46:57 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:40367 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755126AbXLRNqz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:46:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:44 +1100 From: David Chinner To: Bret Towe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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