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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:30:36 +0200
From: Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sf.net>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.20-pre1-ac1: Filesystem panic attempting to mount ext3
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OGAWA Hirofumi, Sun, Sep 01, 2002 19:02:59 +0200:
> Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sf.net> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > the problem appeared on the first partition of an ide
> > IBM-DHEA-36481 with one fat partition on it. I repartioned
> > the device (4 primaries) and "mke2fs -j" three of them.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > Umount produced something as well:
> > 
> > Sep  1 08:47:54 steel kernel: FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
> > Sep  1 08:47:54 steel kernel: Found signature1 0x0 signature2 0x0 sector=1.
> > 
> > Assuming that some garbage was left on the disk event after mke2fs,
> > i did "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd1 bs=512", which cured the problem,
> > after being followed by mke2fs.
> 
> It's problem of fatfs, and I think it's fixed in 2.5 series. I'll try
> to back porting the part of fatfs of 2.5 series.

Thanks.
Does mounting somehow depend on order of initialization of filesystems?
The fatfs is a module here, and it was inserted last (ext3 is compiled in).

-alex
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