(ext3 + (2.4.18 -> 2.6.11)) = WTF?

[Michael ODonnell]

OK - this is now officially upgraded to a double-WTF.
I haven't yet had the time to really sit down and do a
bit-bashing debug session but in spare moments I've been
trying to gather additional clues and I thought y'all
might be amused by this one: even though with 2.6.11  I
can't (directly) mount /dev/hde1 anywhere because some
chunk of code somewhere along the line keeps deciding that
/dev/hde1 is busy or already mounted, I am nevertheless
able to mount it (indirectly) thus -

   mount -o loop     /dev/hde1 /mnt/hde1

...while this is all that's necessary with 2.4.18 -

   mount -t reiserfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/hde1

Is it too early to start drinking?