Re: 2.4 odd behaviour of ramdisk + cramfs

[Remco van Mook <remco@virtu.nl>]

Hello Meelis,

thank you ! This patch works for me.

Does it have any side effects or might I suggest that this one is merged 
into the mainstream kernel ?

Cheers,

Remco van Mook

At 18:59 13-11-2003 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
>RvM> Running it once causes the mount to fail with 'cramfs: wrong magic' -
>
>Debian kernel has a patch to help cramfs initrd's work. The symptoms
>wothout the patch are very similar. This is the patch, extracted from
>Debian kernel-source package:
>
>diff -urN linux-2.4.22.orig/fs/block_dev.c linux-2.4.22/fs/block_dev.c
>--- linux-2.4.22.orig/fs/block_dev.c     2003-06-01 13:06:32.000000000 +1000
>+++ linux-2.4.22/fs/block_dev.c  2003-06-01 20:43:53.000000000 +1000
>@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
>         sync_buffers(dev, 2);
>         blksize_size[MAJOR(dev)][MINOR(dev)] = size;
>         bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits = blksize_bits(size);
>-       kill_bdev(bdev);
>+       invalidate_bdev(bdev, 1);
>         bdput(bdev);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
>--
>Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)
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