Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 06:54:02 EST


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:18:37 -0300 (BRT)
> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>
> > > PS to Marcelo:
> > > There is a problem with 2.4.22-pre3. I cannot mount a reiserfs
> > > data-partition with 320 GB size located on a 3ware RAID. It just hangs the
> > > box, during init or any runlevel I tried. It is completely reproducable,
> > > but debugreiserfs on the partition and reiserfsck both show no problems at
> > > all ... The things mounts flawlessly under 2.4.22-pre2 and below.
> >
> > There are no 3ware changes in pre3. So it must be reiserfs or something
> > else. Lets try reverting the reiserfs patches to see if they are the
> > cause?
> >
> > Attached are files rei1, rei2, and rei3 (all gzip compressed).
>
> I reverted all three patches and the problem stays just the same. I guess this
> makes it a lot likely that the problem lies elsewhere.
>
> If you want me to try others, just send them to me like these three.

Stephan,

First of all, thanks a lot for your help. Not everyone is willing to
debug/test problems like you do. This is very important for us.

Well, we now know reiserfs patches in 2.4.22-pre are not the problem.

2.4.21 is OK (does not crash when mounting) correct?
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