From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:16:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:16:16 -0500 Received: from inet-mail4.oracle.com ([148.87.2.204]:33173 "EHLO inet-mail4.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:15:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3CC176.83F49A74@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:17:26 +0100 From: Alessandro Suardi Organization: Oracle Support Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.2-pre10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Lord CC: Linus Torvalds , Alexander Viro , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10 In-Reply-To: <1010601760.29727.138.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Will let you know in 2 days at most. Thanks ! --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]")