Re: Bug in ext3

[Andrew Morton]

Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > Please send the output of dumpe2fs, and of `fsck -fy'.
> 
> No, it has always been an ext2 filesystem, and never was ext3. Fsck
> shows no errors. The point being that I do _not_ want my root filesystem
> to be ext3, but I do want ext3 built into the kernel. That case should
> not cause a problem like I have seen.
> 

ext3 thinks that the filesystem's superblock has the
EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL bit set in the s_feature_compat
field of the on-disk superblock.

It's probable that that bit _is_ set.  ext2 will never notice it.

Please: the dumpe2fs output?

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