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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Luyer <david@luyer.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.18-rc3-ac3: bug with using whole disks as filesystems
Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:59:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027594799.9488.35.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004901c233b9$680612b0$638317d2@pacific.net.au>

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 09:58, David Luyer wrote:
> Original commands to cause failure:
>   mkfs -b 8192 /dev/sdb -f
>   mount /dev/sdb /cache

That isnt supported on x86 (it exceeds page size) but the crash is
something that should not have happened and points to a missing
validation check in the reiserfs code.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-25  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-25  8:58 David Luyer
2002-07-25 10:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-25  9:03 David Luyer
2002-07-26  5:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-26  8:31   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-26  9:47 ` Oleg Drokin

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