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* mount -f regression in v2.21's new-mount
@ 2012-03-06 22:43 Matt Burgess
  2012-03-07  7:49 ` Karel Zak
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Matt Burgess @ 2012-03-06 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux

Hi,

First off, apologies in advance for the probably useless bug report that
follows!  I'm only reporting it here because it *appears* to be a
regression but I can't reproduce it under a minimised test-case.

Linux From Scratch's bootscripts mount a tmpfs at /run using the rather
trivial 'mount -n /run'.  The corresponding fstab entry is:

# file system  mount-point  type   options   dump  fsck order
tmpfs          /run         tmpfs  defaults  0     0

A little later on in the boot sequence, it then does a 'mount -f /run'
in order to do update /etc/mtab.

Now, when I build 2.21 with a plain './configure' run, everything works
as expected.  However, when I build 2.21 with './configure
--enable-new-mount', the 2nd call to 'mount' appears to actually perform
the mount, as opposed to simply updating /etc/mtab, thereby meaning that
files/directories we expect to be there are no longer visible.

As mentioned above, I tried to reproduce this with a minimal test-case
executed after boot, but the following *always* works correctly with
both old and new (libmount-based) mount:

mkdir /tmp/run
mount -n /tmp/run
touch /tmp/run/test
ls -l /tmp/run/test
mount -f /tmp/run
ls -l /tmp/run/test

If the test case was successful at reproducing the fault, I'd expect the
1st 'ls' command to show 1 file, and the 2nd to show 0 files.

Any ideas on either where this bug may be, or how I may go about trying
to reproduce/debug it further would be gratefully received.

Thanks,

Matt.


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2012-03-06 22:43 mount -f regression in v2.21's new-mount Matt Burgess
2012-03-07  7:49 ` Karel Zak
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-08  9:23     ` Karel Zak
2012-03-08 20:25       ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-09 10:53         ` Karel Zak
2012-03-09 11:30           ` Matthew Burgess
2012-03-09 12:29             ` Karel Zak
2012-03-11 19:06               ` Matt Burgess
2012-03-12 14:09                 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-03-12 14:32                 ` Karel Zak
2012-03-12 17:17                   ` Pádraig Brady
2012-03-09 14:22             ` Petr Uzel

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