Kernel 2.2.6-ac1 problem

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > 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?

No.  I've been running little endian with linux servers running back to
2.0.28 or so, or shortly thereafter.  2.0.33 is stock DR3, MkLinux's
current branch is 2.0.37 pre-patch whatever....

The related code I noticed changing was related to quota support.  It
doesn't appear to be in the ext2fs code changes, though, because I tried
backdating all of those (other than simple formatting and notational
changes0 to no avail.  I'm thinking it might be in the general filesystem
code.


Later,
David

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