[ENBD] enbd-2.4.32 and Supermount

[Peter T. Breuer]

"Also sprach Julien Rennard:"
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 11:14, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > "Also sprach Julien Rennard:"
> > > 	I just want to say that the new way of treating the media check in
> > > enbd-2.4.32 make it incompatible with supermount-ng.
> > 
> > Mmmm ... not necesssarily.
> 
> > > here is the error :
> > > localhost:~# tail /var/log/kern.log
> > > Jan 13 09:25:18 localhost kernel: ENBD enbd.c #5496[13]:
> > > enbd_media_changed change nda replied (0) with -967324672
> > 
> > It sent out a request for a media check over the net and got a reply OK
> > (0) but the contents of that reply were like nothing intended!
> > It looks random. A nonzero value means OK, so by luck you got OK
> > results all the way until ...


> I don't understand everything but it don't seems to be "rodam" the error
> always happen (and at the same moment)

Well, it's psuedo-random. Computers are deterministic. Recompile
something and you'll get a different sequence.

> > > enbd_media_changed change nda replied (0) with -1070870952
> > > Jan 13 09:25:18 localhost kernel: ENBD enbd.c #5488[16]:
> > > enbd_media_changed change nda received
> > > Jan 13 09:25:18 localhost kernel: ENBD enbd.c #5496[16]:
> > > enbd_media_changed change nda replied (0) with 0
> > 
> >  ... By chance you got a 0 reply, which means the media disappeared.

> > Meanwhile, can you tell me if you are using the correct (new)
> > enbd_ioctl.o module? I think you must be, but I would like
> > confirmation.
> Yes I have checked ! I don't want to loose time so stupidly 
> once again :-)  

OK - I confirm too. Reproduced here. Looking.

Peter