Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933196AbXBRKm7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:42:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933195AbXBRKm7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:42:59 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:28216 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933196AbXBRKm6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:42:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mMxwEFjtCEEsOVB9PX34JJTxtrKiW9bcdk+gYAom6xYx7F/0DLXttkAqX1VLnpdsaSy/6rxcnxr0ojnJlOp0DTuyrTOMNo3ZLFNbpqts8Qvbj5qPUIzDKEYTxhp6cZggbGJM9FG+aoxdJVflH1vNspZC3yPG8GvcpKY0waYxLLk= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:42:54 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric_Augonnet?=" To: "Bill Davidsen" Subject: Re: 2.6.20-mm1 - Oops using Minix 3 file system Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Daniel Aragones" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cedric.augonnet@ens-lyon.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <45D75A1F.8060504@tmr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 27 2007/2/17, C?dric Augonnet : > 2007/2/17, Bill Davidsen : > > C?dric Augonnet wrote: > > That is my all point actually, i am not telling i have a valid > partition. I'm just describing the fact that the minix fs driver is > making too many assumptions on the partition it is given. For sure > there must be something nasty about this image, as you told this is > the duty of the kernel not to mount such a partition if it is not a > partition. Here I was only giving an example of the way we could trick > the driver. This is as important as having the driver working > correctly on valid partitions i suppose. Eventually the problem got solved by Andries Bouwer : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=117176125510900&w=2 Now i can issue a df command on this partition or whatever it may be, and i obtain a consistent result wiythout any oops. Regards, C?dric - 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/