Re: Linux-2.4.18-rc3-ac3: bug with using whole disks as filesystems

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
25 Jul 2002 11:59:59 +0100

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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:58, David Luyer wrote:
> Original commands to cause failure:
> mkfs -b 8192 /dev/sdb -f
> mount /dev/sdb /cache

That isnt supported on x86 (it exceeds page size) but the crash is
something that should not have happened and points to a missing
validation check in the reiserfs code.

Alan

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