From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: Problem mounting ext2 using ext3? Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20080505222623.GA8357@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Development , Linux/m68k , Jan Kara To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.58]:49924 "EHLO edna.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753212AbYEFHLP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 03:11:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080505222623.GA8357@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Ted, On Mon, 5 May 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > when mounting the root file system, which is ext2 (has_journal is not set). > > Apparently it crashes in ext3_sync_fs because EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal is NULL. > > > > At first I thought it was an issue with the byteswapped IDE bus on Atari (a > > new and different solution to handle this just went into mainline), but if I > > disable CONFIG_EXT3 support, it boots up fine. > > > > Is this a known problem? > > I can confirm this as a regression. You don't even need to mount it Thanks for confirming! > as a root filesystem, or do this on an 68k system. On my x86 system, That's all I had available for a quick test ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds