Re: crash when mounting

["Ahmed Kamal" <email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com>]

Well, yeah sure. But I was kind of hoping my playing/testing is going
to help you guys fix it. So, does that traceback help you pin point
the problem ? If not, is there anything I can do, to help with that ?
I believe this crash should be re-producible .. haven't tested that
though

Regards

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 02:12 +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> I was playing on vmware with btrfs on complete disks /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}.
>> Next I decided to use partitions, so I created /dev/sd{b,c,d,e}1 and
>> used those, worked fine! Afterward, I mistakenly re-ran an old command
>> on the full disk ( mount -t btrfs -o subvol=. /dev/sdb /mnt/ ) notice
>> this is sdb not sdb1, and I got this spectacular kernel freeze. Let me
>> know if that's some bug.
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> It would be nice if we didn't oops, there is clearly some hardening to
> do in the failure paths for corrupt filesystems.
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> -chris
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