> As it turns out, two parallel instances of /bin/mount pointing > to the same device will cause one to fail; it appears that there > is some sort of locking/ref-counting during a mount operation > that results in one of the two mount processes getting EBUSY as a result.
In particular, when we open the block device, the kernel sets FMODE_EXCL flag which prevents additional opens of the same device where the filesystem is of a different type. This is expected behavior by the kernel (and our setup). -- https://code.launchpad.net/~raharper/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/330995 Your team cloud-init commiters is requested to review the proposed merge of ~raharper/cloud-init:ds-ovf-use-util-find-devs-with into cloud-init:master. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev Post to : cloud-init-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
