Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 2004 23:45:36 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.6.8-rc3 jffs2 unable to read filesystems |
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On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:58:07PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:18 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > This can be seen by tracing through the code from jffs2_alloc_raw_inode() > > and noticing that previous implementations do not initialise this field - > > AFAICS kmem_cache_alloc() does not guarantee that memory returned by > > this function will be initialised. > > Doh. > > > Therefore, recent 2.6.8-rc kernels must _NOT_ use this field if they > > wish to remain compatible with existing jffs2 filesystems. > > The format is compatible in theory -- we just need to work around the > bug in the older code. Can you try this?
Ok, this boots fine here, thanks.
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