That is because one critical piece is missing from 2.4, the VFS lock
patch. It is part of the LVM sources at sistina.com. Chris Mason has
been trying to get it in, but it is delayed until 2.4.19 is out.
> dump did not complain however, and given what e2fsck had to complain,
> I'd happily force mount such a file system when just a deletion has not
> completed.
You cannot mount a dirty ext3 filesystem from read-only media.
Cheers, Andreas
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