Mounting more than one ubifs fails on 2.6.31-rc2

Tobias Diedrich ranma+kernel at tdiedrich.de
Wed Jul 15 15:35:52 EDT 2009


Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:32 +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> > I get the following error when trying to mount a second ubifs:
> > "mount: File exists"
> > Apparently the problem is that ubifs is registered in /sys/class/bdi
> > with it's name 'ubifs' instead of the ubi device major/minor and
> > so can only be registered once.
> > 
> > navi:/home/ranma# mount -t ubifs ubi1:rootfs /mnt/ubi1
> > navi:/home/ranma# mount -t ubifs ubi0:rootfs /mnt/ubi0
> > mount: File exists
> > navi:/home/ranma# umount /mnt/ubi1
> > navi:/home/ranma# mount -t ubifs ubi0:rootfs /mnt/ubi0
> > navi:/home/ranma# mount -t ubifs ubi1:rootfs /mnt/ubi1
> > mount: File exists
> > 
> > The corresponding kernel error messages is:
> > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/bdi/ubifs'
> > 
> 
> Was fixed recently:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6.git?a=commit;h=7fcd9c3ecbf09c0a77db7ba01aac75b32fb79a93

It's indeed fixed in 2.6.31-rc3, sorry for the noise.

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