Helmut Jarausch writes:
> On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and get rid of that
> > process.
> >
> > This happens with kernel 3.2.21 and 3.4.4.
> >
> > Is this the expected bahviour?
At least it happens here, too. And the mount process uses 100% of one of
my cores, this was not expected.
> 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.
Wonko
