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dsmid · 02-14-2014, 11:06 AM

Some bad news:
Lots of issues with bind-mounting. The more bind-mounts there are, the more is Kindle prone to userstore issues.
It starts complaining about "Stale NFS handles" and that "Something is wrong at the system level". User store cannot be written to. It happens when you connect Kindle to PC.
The problems appear even if userstore is not involved in bind-mounting at all.

I had to abandon the neat idea of bind-mounting and overwrite files on the system partition instead.
I made sure to thoroughly test the new method in order to be safe (making backups, restoring in case of problems, ...), nevertheless, it is not as simple and nice as it was before.
Never mind.

02-14-2014, 11:06 AM	#19
dsmid Linux devotee Posts: 598 Karma: 2069047 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3, Kindle 4B, Kindle PW2	Some bad news: Lots of issues with bind-mounting. The more bind-mounts there are, the more is Kindle prone to userstore issues. It starts complaining about "Stale NFS handles" and that "Something is wrong at the system level". User store cannot be written to. It happens when you connect Kindle to PC. The problems appear even if userstore is not involved in bind-mounting at all. I had to abandon the neat idea of bind-mounting and overwrite files on the system partition instead. I made sure to thoroughly test the new method in order to be safe (making backups, restoring in case of problems, ...), nevertheless, it is not as simple and nice as it was before. Never mind. Last edited by dsmid; 02-14-2014 at 11:08 AM.