On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> > 
> > I was experiencing strange problem with mm tree since at least 2.6.4-mm?. 
> > My Gentoo startup scripts can mount root filesystem and all virtual 
> > filesystems (procfs, sysfs, tmpfs, usbfs, devpts) but nothing more. Mount 
> > fails for all other disk filesystems (ext3, vfat, ntfs) with EBUSY (or 
> > -EBUSY if you like).
> 
> Sounds like something is keeping the block device busy with an exclusive 
> open. But it would be easier to guess if you can specify a but more 
> closely on exactly when this changed:

Ok, I tested more and found that config files used by me to compile 2.6.5 
and 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 were different. This is normal, because I usually 
generate them by hand (with menuconfig) for each kernel. Config for 2.6.5 
was minimal (after sad experiences with newest mm...) setup that I need. 
Config for 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 was much richer. So I used 2.6.5 config to 
compile 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 and it was working. Next I started adding options to 
it. Now I have two configs for 2.6.6-rc2-bk3. The first does work and the 
second does not. I attached them and diff between (to save you typing :))

Have you any ideas what could cause the problem and what options should I 
add from not working to working config or should I start binary search? 
(On my machine kernel compiles painfully slow, so I will be glad to hear 
you have an idea where should I look...)


thanks for anwser and waiting for more

Grzegorz Kulewski