Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932298AbVJIXkw (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:40:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932304AbVJIXkw (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:40:52 -0400 Received: from [67.137.28.189] ([67.137.28.189]:28544 "EHLO vger.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932298AbVJIXkv (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:40:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4349961F.7060109@utah-nac.org> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:13:51 -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> <43497B09.3020102@utah-nac.org> <20051009220838.GN7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051009220838.GN7992@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: 1523 Lines: 56 Al Viro wrote: >On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:18:17PM -0600, jmerkey wrote: > > >>If they all use the same on disk formats as their basic structure, >> >> > >ext3 and reiserfs? No, they do not. > > > >>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. >> >> > >Since when does fsck run fsck.ext3 on filesystems that are not marked >as ext3 in /etc/fstab? > > > >>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. >> >> > >Sorry, but I doubt that Hans or anybody in RH knows how to patch > ---> wetware, <---- Is this the new "official" non-official slang word for Suse Linux? Jeff >let alone one as messed up as yours. >- > > - 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/