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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:58:01
Message-Id: 20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch writes:
2
3 > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4
7 > > from this disk:
8 [...]
9 > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed.
10 > >
11 > > I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and get rid of that
12 > > process.
13 > >
14 > > This happens with kernel 3.2.21 and 3.4.4.
15 > >
16 > > Is this the expected bahviour?
17
18 At least it happens here, too. And the mount process uses 100% of one of
19 my cores, this was not expected.
20
21 > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal.
22 >
23 > But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang.
24 > As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will
25 > 'kill' that mount request some time.
26
27 Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I
28 will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout.
29
30 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>