Re: [CHECKER] 56 potential lock/unlock bugs in 2.5.8

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 15:34:29 EST


Hi,

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> > Which last few kernels? Was it a ffs or an ofs image? For ofs images you
> > have to call fsx with "-W -R" to disable mmap operations.
>
> OFS afaik. Has this always been the case ? I'm sure I ran fsx without
> disabling mmap before on this image, and it used to pass.

ofs never supported mmap.

> Second bad news, with the -W -R options, it goes splat in an
> even more dramatic way.

Which kernel version? It looks like a bug which already has been fixed
quite some time ago.

bye, Roman

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