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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:42:54 +0100 From: "Cédric Augonnet" <cedric.augonnet@...il.com> To: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@....com> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Daniel Aragones" <danarag@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Cedric.augonnet@...-lyon.org Subject: Re: 2.6.20-mm1 - Oops using Minix 3 file system 2007/2/17, Cédric Augonnet <cedric.augonnet@...il.com>: > 2007/2/17, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>: > > Cédric Augonnet wrote: > > That is my all point actually, i am not telling i have a valid > partition. I'm just describing the fact that the minix fs driver is > making too many assumptions on the partition it is given. For sure > there must be something nasty about this image, as you told this is > the duty of the kernel not to mount such a partition if it is not a > partition. Here I was only giving an example of the way we could trick > the driver. This is as important as having the driver working > correctly on valid partitions i suppose. Eventually the problem got solved by Andries Bouwer : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=117176125510900&w=2 Now i can issue a df command on this partition or whatever it may be, and i obtain a consistent result wiythout any oops. Regards, Cédric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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