Re: ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10

Alessandro Suardi (alessandro.suardi@oracle.com)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:47:29 +0100


Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > It looks like ext3 does not work if you do not use an external
> > journal device - the journal_bdev field is not initialized and
> > ext3_put_super goes belly up:
>
> I have seen the umount oops -but- not 100% of the time. No time
> to copy the oops text since my laptop powers off, and as the
> issue occurred two times out of five or six, I haven't yet had
> a very strong need to hunt this further, confident someone more
> clueful than me (possibly the vast majority of l-k :) would do
> very soon. It looks like it happened. Heh. As always.
>
> > At the very least it needs this:
>
> [snipped patch]
>
> OK, going to the usual patch/build/reboot/test sequence now.

Of course the last 252p10 shutdown saw the oops, leaving me
with the doubt that I didn't attend all the shutdowns :/

And of course the patch makes the oops go away (four reboots
in a row without any problem). Thanks !

Ciao,

--alessandro

"this machine will, will not communicate
these thoughts and the strain I am under
be a world child, form a circle before we all go under"
(Radiohead, "Street Spirit [fade out]")
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