Re: mke2fs (and mkreiserfs) core dumps

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>]

On Mar 17, 2002  10:37 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:26:53AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Yes, I have always considered this a kernel bug (introduced in 2.4.10),
> > but my (admittedly feeble) attempts to get it fixed were not accepted.
> > At one point I thought a fix went into 2.4.18-pre[12] or so, but I
> > guess not.  I haven't tried in a while, so maybe I should make another
> > attempt.
> > 
> 
> Was that part of the 2.4.10-pre11 -aa VM merge, or was it from another
> seperate patch?

Well, at the same time as Linus merged -aa VM, he also merged
blockdev-in-pagecache from -aa.  This caused this problem, among others.
With blockdev-in-pagecache, the kernel thinks block device access is the
same as reading a file, so it imposes file limits.  It also caused the
problem that the block device (pagecache) and the filesystem (buffer
cache) were not coherent, causing e2fsck, tune2fs, etc to not work.

Cheers, Andreas
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