[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] Set return value to -EINVAL if superblock probe failed

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Laszlo Attila Toth wrote:
> In case of non-modular kernels the root filesystem is mounted by trying
> several filesystems. If ocfs2 is tried before the actual filesystem type,
> such as squashfs, the mount is failed because ocfs2_fill_super's return
> value was -EAGAIN and normally it should return with -EINVAL, which means
> the filesystem is non-ocfs2.

	ocfs2_sb_probe() shouldn't be returning -EAGAIN in the first
place.  I've done a different patch to the same effect, and it is now in
the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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