On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:21:39 -0700 (PDT), Sven-Göran_Bergh wrote: > Hi dexen, > > thank you for a prompt reply. > > > > >> I am in the process of migrating an embedded project from > >> ext2 to nilfs2 and have a problem with nilfs_cleanerd. It > >> does not start on mount and I cannot start it manually. > >> (...) > > > > Relevant snippet from strace of my nilfs_cleanerd (version nilfs- > > utils-2.0.23): > ... > > 864 statfs("/dev/shm", {f_type=0x1021994, f_bsize=4096, > > f_blocks=86016, > > f_bfree=86010, f_bavail=86010, f_files=754077, f_ffree=754075, f_fsid={0, 0}, > > f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096} > > ) = 0 > > 864 futex(0x7f551010d31c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 > > 864 open("/dev/shm/sem.nilfs-cleaner-2067", O_RDWR|O_NOFOLLOW) = -1 > > ENOENT > > (No such file or directory) > > 864 lstat("/dev/shm/sem.qLTneb", 0x7fffff54fb70) = -1 ENOENT (No > > such file or > > directory) > > 864 open("/dev/shm/sem.qLTneb", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0700) = 6 > > Hmmm, quite different. Could you confirm whether /dev/shm is mounted on /run/shm (or /var/run/shm) ? Some systems don't mount /dev/shm, and posix semaphores do not work in such systems. Regards, Ryusuke Konishi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html