From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Lothar Waßmann" <lw@karo-electronics.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.25: 'mkdir -p' does not work with rootdir as mount point inside a read only filesystem
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:55:43 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53722.192.168.1.70.1209711343.squirrel@neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501215231.297e0d9d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, May 2, 2008 2:52 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:20 +0200 Lothar Wa__mann
> <LW@KARO-electronics.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
> (y'know that ~4000 people read your email and hit 'n'? Except for me?
> That's one bug I'd like to get fixed)
Tricky....
>
>> when trying to create a directory path with 'mkdir -p' with the root
>> being a mount point of a writeable filesystem that exists inside a
>> read-only file system, mkdir return -EROFS.
My guess is that you have an old/buggy version of mkdir.
What does
mkdir --version
say?
Mine says:
mkdir (GNU coreutils) 6.10
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
etc...
What does
strace mkdir -p /dev/.udev/db
show ???
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 14:50 Lothar Waßmann
2008-05-02 4:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 6:55 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2008-05-03 6:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-05 6:27 ` Lothar Waßmann
2008-05-05 7:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-05 7:08 ` Lothar Waßmann
2008-05-05 7:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-05 7:38 ` Lothar Waßmann
2008-05-05 12:02 ` Al Viro
2008-05-02 11:32 ` Dan Noé
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