[systemd-devel] XFS Mount issues (multiple mount concurrency issue?)

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 11/09/12 11:37 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hi guys.
>>
>> Quick straw poll: Has anyone had issues mounting XFS partitions on boot?
>> I have a user who has several and one usually mounts fine the the others
>> do not. When in the emergency shell they all mount fine manually.
>>
>> Could there some kind of concurrency issue here? Or perhaps the first
>> mount tries to load the kernel module for the fs in question and the
>> other mounts fail because the module is still mid-load?
>
> Michal Schmidt pointed me at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771285
>
> Which seems like the same issue. I'll CC myself there.

Lucas figured something out with Rusty, and the plan is to change the
kernel to prevent the too early return of the parallel running
module_init() call.

Kay