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Re: Not a directory!

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:31 +0530, prasad Musale wrote:
> Hello friends,
>                   I am writing a basic file system. I got error 'bash:
> cd: /mnt/fs : Not a directory', when i tried to mount my fs
> on /mnt/fs.
> Can any one tell why ?
>  
> Thanks.


Just a guess.

Take a look at the i_mode member of the root inode. The S_IFDIR
bit should be set. At one (or more) points in the mounting process
this bit is checked with the S_ISDIR() macro and if it fails then
you get that error.

-- 
Richard Johnson <richj25@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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