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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:07:47 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix 2.5.3pre reiserfs BUG() at boot time
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On Mon, Jan 28 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:02:54AM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > 
> > 2.5.3-pre5 + this patch still can't boot my system. I haven't had
> >  time to copy down oops at boot, will do if needed.
> 
> Please do. I cannot see anything in the patch that should prevent bootup
> though, so I would also recommend a make clean and recompile first just
> to make sure it isn't a broken build. 

Probably the kmem_cache_create 'name too long' bug that Viro pointed out
to me. fs/reiserfs/super.c:init_inodecache(). Change the name passed to
kmem_cache_create to something shorter.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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