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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 01:08:46 +0200
From: Christian Ullrich <chris@chrullrich.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning problems in 2.4.11
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* Alexander Viro wrote on Thursday, 2001-10-11:

> 	*Damn*.  grok_partitions() doesn't set the size of entire device
> until it's done with check_partition().  Which means max_blocks() behaving
> in all sorts of interesting ways, depending on phase of moon, etc.
> 
> 	Could you check if the following helps?

Yeah, that one did it.

dmesg (only the interesting parts):

 hdb:[63 10000305]
 hdb1[10000368 68063184]
 hdb2 <[10000431 20972889]
 hdb5[48063519 30000033]
 hdb6 >[78063552 1999872]
 hdb3

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:46) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
(this time, no errors to follow)


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