Btrfs devel - May 2014 - RE: Can anyone boot a system using btrfs root with linux 3.14 or newer? - RESOLVED

>On 27/04/14 13:00, Пламен Петров wrote:
>> The problem reported in this thread has been RESOLVED.
>> 
>> It's not BTRFS's fault.
>> 
>> Debugging on my part led to the actual problem in do_mounts.c - some
>> filesystems mount routines return error codes other than 0, EACCES
>> and EINVAL and such return codes result in the kernel panicking
>> without trying to mount root with all of the available filesystems.
>> 
>> Patch is available as attachment to bug 74901 -
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74901 . The bugentry
>> documents how I managed to find the problem.
>
>Well deduced and that looks to be a good natural clean fix.
>
>My only question is: What was the original intent to deliberately fail
>if something other than EACCES or EINVAL were reported?
>
This one beats me as well: I looked up current git history for init/do_mounts.c
- it turns out that it came in git this way, with 2.6.12-rc2. The actual
reasoning behind its behavior - I do not know... and did not bother looking it
up further.
>> Also, the patch has been sent to the linux kernel mailing list - see
>>
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.linux.kernel&article=1691881
>> Hopefully, it will find its way into the kernel, and later on - in
>> stable releases.
>
>>That all looks very good and very thorough.
>>
>> Thanks to you all! ------------------------------ Plamen Petrov
>
>Thanks to you for chasing it through!
>
>AND for posting the "Resolved" to let everyone know. 
>
>Regards,
>Martin
You are welcome!

Regards,
---------------------------------
Plamen Petrov

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