Re: Problem mounting ext2 using ext3?

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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.

Thanks.

Vegard

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