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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:53:38 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.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 at 12:07:47PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

The patch he tried removed the check of the name length ;) 

-Andi
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