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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:54:04 +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>,
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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 12:07:47PM +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 ;) 

Heh, my cover is blown -- I didn't read it :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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