On Tue 06-05-08 09:26:30, Vegard Nossum wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > when mounting the root file system, which is ext2 (has_journal is not set). > > > Apparently it crashes in ext3_sync_fs because EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal is NULL. > > > > > > At first I thought it was an issue with the byteswapped IDE bus on Atari (a > > > new and different solution to handle this just went into mainline), but if I > > > disable CONFIG_EXT3 support, it boots up fine. > > > > > > Is this a known problem? > > > > I can confirm this as a regression. You don't even need to mount it > > as a root filesystem, or do this on an 68k system. On my x86 system, > > using a kernel based off of git commit: afa26be8 (6 commits after > > 2.6.26-rc1), mounting an ext3 filesystem, you can cause an oops by > > taking an ext2 filesystem and forcing a mount as ext3, "mount -t ext3 > > /dev/closure/textext2fs /mnt"). (see below for my oops). This does > > not occur with a kernel based off of 2.6.25, so it's a definite > > regression. > > Hi, > > I posted a very similar problem a couple of days ago: > http://www.nabble.com/BUG-in-ext3_sync_fs-td16999997.html > > to which I got zero replies. Can I close this in my internal bugzilla > as dup/"not my fault"? The stacktrace looks very similar. This was > also ext2 fs mounted (apparently) by ext3 code. Yes, this looks like the same problem. I'll take care of that. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
