On Tue, May 12 2020, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: Hi Chris,
> I must say this is a very generic report. To your points 1) and 2) > I could ask "What did the kernel say at this time, esp. did it claim > success?", to 3) and 4) I could say "There is also no documentation > on interactions with other tools changing global system state, like > reboot(1)". > Now, none of these replies would be very helpful. Sorry about that, Chris. I have tried just now and, rather to my surprise, have been unable to duplicate this in order to gather more information. I had assumed it would be fairly readily reproducible; that is my mistake. I can report to you that the kernel messages looked as if it had been mounted; for instance: May 11 20:48:46 tinwhistle kernel: [10011.916687] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) May 11 20:50:19 tinwhistle kernel: [10104.961413] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro May 11 21:06:21 tinwhistle kernel: [11067.149192] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro May 11 21:06:30 tinwhistle kernel: [11076.165431] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro May 11 21:06:47 tinwhistle kernel: [11093.047456] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) May 11 21:07:14 tinwhistle kernel: [11119.680451] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) May 11 21:07:30 tinwhistle kernel: [11135.623084] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro May 11 21:07:56 tinwhistle kernel: [11161.524673] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) May 11 21:08:22 tinwhistle kernel: [11187.655296] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) May 11 21:09:05 tinwhistle kernel: [11231.262182] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro I believed at the time that it was being -- at least to the kernel -- mounted briefly and then immediately unmounted again. > - What exactly do you want to see changed, and what are your wording > suggestions? Ideally it would just work. Failing that, it would give a helpful error message. Failing that, a warning in the manpages. Thanks, and sorry for the lack of detail. John
