Bug#685143: mount: Trying to mount extended partition directly cases hang and 100% CPU usage

2012-09-11 Thread ck850
I can reproduce this bug on my squeeze system with backports kernel 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-686-pae too. Not with "-t auto" but if I use some filesystem (e.g. ext2/3/4, reiserfs) in the mount command. mount -t ext3 /dev/sdxy /mnt With kernel 2.6.32-5-686 I get the ususal "mount: wrong fs type, bad superb

Bug#685143: mount: Trying to mount extended partition directly cases hang and 100% CPU usage

2012-09-10 Thread ck850
I can confirm this bug. Just try mount -t auto /dev/sdxy /mnt where sdxy is an extended partition. With version 2.17.2-9.1 there is no problem, you just get the error message "mount: you must specify the filesystem type". But from version 2.19.1-2 on mount shows the described buggy behaviour. T