[PLUG] ubd2 mount problem in user mode linux

[Steve Jorgensen]

I'm gradually learning the stuff I need to make my uml strategy work, and I 
just hit a wall I can't seem to get past on my own.  I'm running the uml 
with the desired ubd0 image just fine, but I can't seem to make any other 
ubd device work right.  First off, the image that rootstrap made did not 
have ubd1, ubd2, etc, though it has ubda0, ..., ubdb0, ... and many others 
I won't need.  Anyway, I made the ubd2 node using mknod /dev/ubd2 b 98 2, 
but mount behaves very strangely.

Whether I try to pass an unmounted partition directly (e.g. /dev/hde6) or 
an image file, I get the same strange behavior when I try to mount it in 
uml using mount -t ext /dev/ubd2 /testmount.  The mount says it was 
successful, but if I ls /testmount, I see a mirror image of the uml root 
directory - not good!  To test and make sure my image file itself was not 
somehow a copy of the uml image, I tried creating a dummy file in the root 
before mounting.  Sure enough, the dummy file shows up in ls /testmount.

Does anyone know what is going on and/or how to fix it?

Thanks,

- Steve Jorgensen