[bug] broken loopback fs in 2.4.15-ish kernels?

[bug] broken loopback fs in 2.4.15-ish kernels?

[Ingo Molnar]

just noticed that rpm -i kernel-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm does not work anymore
because a corrupted initrd gets created by mkinitrd. It smelled like
pagecache corruption so i did not experiment much. This was with
2.4.15-pre9. Once i booted back into a 2.4.13-based kernel and re-did the
rpm -i, the initrd was created correctly.

things are pretty recent:

 [root@mars root]# rpm -q mkinitrd
 mkinitrd-3.2.6-1
 [root@mars root]# rpm -q rpm
 rpm-4.0.3-1.03

anyone seeing anything similar?

	Ingo

RE: [bug] broken loopback fs in 2.4.15-ish kernels?

[Andreas Steinmetz]

I did experiment with romfs on 2.4.15pre7 which did not work (initrd loader
detected romfs, I could loop mount it but the kernel didn't root mount it).
Funny enough using ext2 did work as expected. Maybe there's a common reason.

On 23-Nov-2001 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> just noticed that rpm -i kernel-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm does not work anymore
> because a corrupted initrd gets created by mkinitrd. It smelled like
> pagecache corruption so i did not experiment much. This was with
> 2.4.15-pre9. Once i booted back into a 2.4.13-based kernel and re-did the
> rpm -i, the initrd was created correctly.
> 
> things are pretty recent:
> 
>  [root@mars root]# rpm -q mkinitrd
>  mkinitrd-3.2.6-1
>  [root@mars root]# rpm -q rpm
>  rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> 
> anyone seeing anything similar?
> 
>       Ingo
> 
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