Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug]

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Subject: Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug]
From: M H <mh000151@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:34:40 -0700 (PDT)
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Reply-to: M H <mh000151@yahoo.com>, 684293@bugs.debian.org

After some googling I found out that the root cause of the recent mount problems with extended partitions (maybe also mounting disks like sda)
are related to the infinite loop kernel bug in __getblk_slow. 

(see the explanation: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1189121/)
The affected debian kernels should get fixed with the patch offered in kernel 3.2.24 (http://lwn.net/Articles/508225/).

 

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Michael Hofbauer

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