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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:33:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: possible partition corruption
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Everything you describe is consistent with a kernel which does not have ext3
> > > compiled into it.
> > ...
> > I'm aware of that.
> 
> In that case you may be experiencing the mysterious vanishing
> ext3_read_super-doesn't-work bug.  Usually a recompile/relink makes it go
> away.  I haven't seen it in months.
> 
> Could you please drop this additional debugging in there and see
> what happens?

I'll try it, but a question did occur to me.  I got the hang while booting 
a freshly-compiled 2.5.59, but the error message was received after 
supposedly cleaning and recovering the journal.  That was using the stock 
RedHat 8.0 kernel, 2.4.18-24.8.0, which most certainly does have ext3 
support.  Would the bug you described affect a following boot into a 
totally different kernel?

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