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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc1 dirty ext2 mount error
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:46:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC8ACAB.8C0DB37D@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 21293.1036560940@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> The root partition was originally ext3.  fstab now contains
> 
> /dev/sda1               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
> 
> Booting 2.4.20-rc1 (ext3 as a module, not loaded yet) with a dirty / gets
> 
> EXT2-fs: sd(8,1): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4).
> Drop back to 2.4.18 and it works, automatically running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda1.
> 

You sure?  That would be a bug in 2.4.18...

ext2 does not know how to mount a needs-recovery ext3 filesystem.  It
is flagged as an incompatible feature (4 -> EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER).

If you run journal replay by mounting it with ext3 or running fsck across
it, then ext2 can mount it.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06  5:35 2.4.20-rc1 dirty ext2 mount error Keith Owens
2002-11-06  5:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-06  6:26   ` Keith Owens
2002-11-06  8:28     ` Matt Bernstein
2002-11-06  8:41     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-11-06 10:43       ` Keith Owens
2002-11-06 11:21         ` Willy Tarreau
2002-11-06 16:39         ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-06 10:00 ` James H. Cloos Jr.

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