kernel hangs on DOC2000 root filesystem

[??]

(2.4.18)mount_root():blkdev_put():bdev->bd_op->release():invalidate_device()
: invalidate_inodes(sb)
probably caused by doing invalidate_xxx() inside mount_root()?
(some other driver also hang when doing release() operation inside
mount_root)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan J Simon" <brendan.simon at ctam.com.au>
To: "linux-mtd" <linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: kernel hangs on DOC2000 root filesystem


>
>
> David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> >brendan.simon at ctam.com.au said:
> >
> >> Any ideas why the kernel just hangs ?
> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>BJS: nftl_release(): invalidate_device()
> >>>>>>>>>>
>
> Is this because get_super() fails ???
>
> I've done an fsck.ext2 and it passed with no problems.  This should mean
> that the super blocks are OK, should it ???
>
> I formatted the DOC with nftl_format if that makes any difference.
> I also used the latest fdisk from util-linux for format the drive with
> an MSDOS partition table and one ext2 partition.
>
> Thanks for any help or advice.
> Brendan Simon.
>
>
>
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