From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:12:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:12:49 -0400 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:5387 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:12:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB5EDC8.F817E382@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:10:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: Frank Krauss , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Possible EXT2 File System Corruption in Kernel 2.4 In-Reply-To: <02041112492500.01786@sevencardstud.cable.nu> <20020411191255.GK3509@turbolinux.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 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > ... > EXT2 FILE SYSTEM > -P: Remy Card > -M: Remy.Card@linux.org > -L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > +L: ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > S: Maintained Yes, I'd support that. It's a sad thing to do, but there is no point in misleading people in this way. Remy already has an entry in ./CREDITS for ext2. > This is unfortunately only a symptom of a problem and not the original > cause. There should have previously been errors saying "error - freeing > blocks in system zone". There is a patch I posted a few months ago to > fix this symptom, but not the actual cause. Do you have time to dust that patch off? Shit happens, and the filesystems should be robust in the presence of software and hardware failures. In this case the filesystem has reached a point where it *knows* that it is about to do the wrong thing, it emits a warning and then it just goes ahead and does it! -