Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932292AbVJIVpT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:45:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932296AbVJIVpT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:45:19 -0400 Received: from [67.137.28.189] ([67.137.28.189]:26752 "EHLO vger.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932292AbVJIVpR (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:45:17 -0400 Message-ID: <43497B09.3020102@utah-nac.org> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:18:17 -0600 From: jmerkey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ext3 warning for unused var References: <20051009195850.27237.90873.stgit@zion.home.lan> <43497533.6090106@utah-nac.org> <20051009212916.GM7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051009212916.GM7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 38 Al Viro wrote: >On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:53:23PM -0600, jmerkey wrote: > > >>Someone needs to fix fsck.ext3 while they are at it so it doesn't barf >>when reading from reisferfs filesystems and return a command return of > >>2 during scanning of parttions during bootup. This looks like some sort >>of anti-competitive crap and it doesn't belong in fsck.ext3 since >>reiserfs is in the kernel. >> >> > >Huh? WTF are you trying to feed reiserfs to fsck.ext3 and just what do >you expect it to do? > > > If they all use the same on disk formats as their basic structure, fsck should not return gt > 1 due to misinterpreting reiser on-disk structures. It should say "oh not one of mine, skipping". Instead it returns an error claiming massive corruption, and halts the system. I just upgraded my wifes computer from Suse to RedHat FC4 and when it hits the reiser partitions, the whole system explodes due to fsck.ext3 misrecognizing reiser partitions. I had to modify rc.sysinit and blank the partitions with fdisk to get it to install. After it installed, I recreated the partitions (after writing down what they were in the first place for block #'s etc.) and disabled rc.sysinit checks. This is busted. Hans needs to fix fsck.ext3 and submit a patch or redhat does. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/