Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:42:54 +0100 | From | "Cédric Augonnet" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.20-mm1 - Oops using Minix 3 file system |
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2007/2/17, Cédric Augonnet <cedric.augonnet@gmail.com>: > 2007/2/17, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.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.
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