Re: Problem mounting ext2 using ext3?

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

	Hi Ted,

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > when mounting the root file system, which is ext2 (has_journal is not set).
> > Apparently it crashes in ext3_sync_fs because EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal is NULL.
> > 
> > At first I thought it was an issue with the byteswapped IDE bus on Atari (a
> > new and different solution to handle this just went into mainline), but if I
> > disable CONFIG_EXT3 support, it boots up fine.
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?
> 
> I can confirm this as a regression.  You don't even need to mount it

Thanks for confirming!

> as a root filesystem, or do this on an 68k system.  On my x86 system,

That's all I had available for a quick test ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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