Helmut Jarausch writes: > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 > > from this disk: [...] > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. > > > > I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and get rid of that > > process. > > > > This happens with kernel 3.2.21 and 3.4.4. > > > > Is this the expected bahviour?
At least it happens here, too. And the mount process uses 100% of one of my cores, this was not expected. > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal. > > But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang. > As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will > 'kill' that mount request some time. Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout. Wonko