Alex Schuster writes:
> Helmut Jarausch writes:
>
> > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > 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 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.
All I can say now is that the timeout, if there is one, must be larger
than 24 hours.
Isn't this weird?
Wonko
