RE: PROBLEM: ext2/mount - multiple mounts corrupts inodes

[Alexander Viro]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Kris Urquhart wrote:

> + DEVICE=/dev/hda3
> + MOUNT=/mnt/hd
> + cat /proc/mounts
> + grep /mnt/hd
> + umount /mnt/hd
> umount: /mnt/hd: not mounted
[created fs on hda3]
> + rm -rf /mnt/hd
> + mkdir -p /mnt/hd
> + mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd
> + cat /proc/mounts
> + grep /mnt/hd
> /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd ext2 rw 0 0
> + cp -r /bin/tar /mnt/hd
> + cp -r /bin/zcat /mnt/hd
> + mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd
> mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /mnt/hd busy
> mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /mnt/hd

Complains about mounting same fs on the same spot, refuses to mount.

> + grep /mnt/hd
> + cat /proc/mounts
> /dev/hda3 /mnt/hd ext2 rw 0 0
> + find /mnt/hd -ls
>      2    1 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Dec 31 15:17 /mnt/hd
>     11   12 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Dec 31 15:17
> /mnt/hd/lost+found
> find: /mnt/hd/tar: Input/output error
> find: /mnt/hd/zcat: Input/output error

WTF???  Very interesting...  What about kernel messages?  It looks like
stat(2) failing.

Just in case - could you put the same find before the second attempt of
mount?