Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934032AbXEEWG6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 18:06:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934038AbXEEWG6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 18:06:58 -0400 Received: from ns1.q-leap.de ([153.94.51.193]:34485 "EHLO mail.q-leap.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934032AbXEEWG6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2007 18:06:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 00:06:54 +0200 From: Bernd Schubert To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bernd-schubert@gmx.de Subject: Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption Message-ID: <20070505220654.GA26879@lanczos.q-leap.de> References: <200705041659.51675.bs@q-leap.de> <20070504184943.GC25339@thunk.org> <20070505013637.GA23803@lanczos.q-leap.de> <20070505185735.GB21049@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 22 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:12:02PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 5 2007 14:57, Theodore Tso wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > >> distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution > >> important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2 is supposed to write to /dev/sdaX > >> and not /dev/rd/0. Stracing it and grepping for open calls shows that > >> only /dev/sdaX is opened in read-write mode. > > > >/dev/rd/0? What's this? > > devfs (hint hint) naming for /dev/ram0. Yep, but udev knows devfs style ... (I already told I tested vanilla kernels, so no patches). Bernd - 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/