Re: ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10

[Alessandro Suardi]

Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> It looks like ext3 does not work if you do not use an external
> journal device - the journal_bdev field is not initialized and
> ext3_put_super goes belly up:

I have seen the umount oops -but- not 100% of the time. No time
 to copy the oops text since my laptop powers off, and as the
 issue occurred two times out of five or six, I haven't yet had
 a very strong need to hunt this further, confident someone more
 clueful than me (possibly the vast majority of l-k :) would do
 very soon. It looks like it happened. Heh. As always.

> At the very least it needs this:

[snipped patch]

OK, going to the usual patch/build/reboot/test sequence now.

Will let you know in 2 days at most. Thanks !

--alessandro

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