Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:54:02 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't divide by 0 when trying to mount ext3
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:27:11PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> There are now three cases that end up with the same message and
> same error from userspace viewpoint. There are many cases where 
> debugging a problem is helped when it's possible to find out exactly
> which test determined that the filesystem could not be mounted. 

Strings are expensive. Don't like to add worthless code.
We lived without this for years, so it is not a frequent occurrence.
If you have a bad ext2/ext3 system, e2fsck will find what is wrong.
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