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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:45:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628154523.343c391e@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org>

Alex Schuster writes:

> Helmut Jarausch writes:
> 
> > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4
> > > from this disk:
> [...]
> > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed.

> > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal.
> > 
> > But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang.
> > As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will
> > 'kill' that mount request some time.
> 
> Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I
> will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout.

All I can say now is that the timeout, if there is one, must be larger
than 24 hours.

Isn't this weird?

	Wonko



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-27  2:44 [gentoo-user] Hanging mount meino.cramer
2012-06-27 11:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-06-27 12:56   ` Alex Schuster
2012-06-28 13:45     ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-06-28 15:00       ` Paul Hartman

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