NMOUNT/OMOUNT midway status

[Doug White]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

> Are you aware of the following problem?  On a recent
> -CURRENT system, remounting / by fsck(8) is not possible:
>
> 	mount reload of '/' failed: Invalid argument
>
> This has been triggered by an unclean shutdown due to a
> panic, but can also be reproduced easily by booting or
> shutting down into single-user mode, having / mounted
> read-only, and typing "fsck /".

I got this today on one of my machines. It would seem that whatever in the
kernel checks the clean bit isn't picking it up after fsck finishes.

I wonder if this may be related to the ufs/ffs aliasing problem fixed
earlier.

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