On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Frederik Himpe wrote:

> On Mandriva's bugzilla, there are lots of reports [1] about the system 
> starting to hang during mounting of the NTFS partitions with ntfs-3g. The 
> system continues to boot when pressing Ctrl-C. This seems to happen 
> especially at the first boot after installation, which makes me think that 
> this could be caused by the recover option now in ntfs-3g (ntfsresize 
> probably marked the ntfs file system as dirty during installation).
> 
> Is it possible that this recover option needs user input or would there be 
> another reason why ntfs-3g causes the boot process to stop until Ctrl-C is 
> pressed?
> 
> [1] https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48674

Ntfs-3g triggers a recently introduced bug in mount(8) which can cause 
mount to hang. 'strace -f' will confirm it. Fix must be already available 
for mount(8).

        Szaka

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