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On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 08:47 +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> 
> That is the point! Panic or refuse to mount is not a good solution. If
> there is a way to mount the file system, than do it. Maybe read-only
> with a big fat warning, but this is better than nothing. This is like
> the ext3 fs, which handles this also in this way.
> 
> > In your case you have very strange corruption. We can apply your
> patch,
> > problem solved, but will you be 100% comfortable with this? There is
> a
> > chance that you have some issues which can later have different
> > symptoms. I am still interested to find out the real root reason.
> > 
> 
> No a will be not 100% comfortable with this, but it is better than
> nothing. I agree with you to fix the cause and not the symptoms, but
> may
> patch will help to get your data back in case of this bug. 

May be. I need some more time to think about this.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)