(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


Oh, yeah - I forgot to mention that I wiped /dev/hde1
and rebuilt the filesystem as ReiserFS instead of ext3
with the symptoms remaining *entirely* unchanged...  (!?!?)

>Is it too early to start drinking?