Kernel 2.2.6-ac1 problem

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, root wrote:
> > I compiled the latest kernel from source and I created vmlinux with no
> > problems.  After installing it in my system folder on my mac partition
> > and booting linux again, I get I/O errors somewhat randomly.
> > The message that is displayed is "No space left on device".  The file
> > /var/log/messages conatins the following lines:
> > 
> > Apr 19 23:23:07 localhost kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)):
> > ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 13
> 
> We've had similar problems with free block corruption under MkLinux
> (2.0.37).  This may be a red herring, but I've only noticed the damage on
> the last partition mounted.  You might try mounting a bogus partition
> after the others and see if it goes away.  Just a wild thought.  Anyway,
> the problem began when someone ported some changes from the current
> development sources into the 2.0.xx tree, between 2.0.33 and 2.0.36 (the
> former was fine, the latter has the problem.  It might be easier to find
> in the context of 2.0.xx since many less things were changing....

Do you mean the change from big endian ext2fs to standard little endian
ext2fs?

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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