On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 04:15, Szonyi Calin wrote: > It seems that fsck is trying to open the partition exclusively > and because it can't it doesn't want to operate. > The root filesystem cannot be opened exclusively because other > programs are using it. See atached file lsof-hda6 for details.
Okay. It looks like a recent patch to fs/block_dev.c now disallows O_EXCL opens when a file system is mounted. I'll have to make a change to the utilities, since the kernel change seems reasonable. A quick fix would be to remove the O_EXCL flag from the open call in jfsutils/fsck/fsckpfs.c. I will make a proper fix to attempt the O_EXCL call when appropriate and open without it when necessary. > It should have an option: "Are you sure you want to repair the filesystem ? > type yes if you really know what you are doing" > for such cases When the file system is mounted read-only, I don't think a confirmation is necessary. It just used to work with the O_EXCL flag, and now it doesn't. Thanks for the very descriptive report, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
