On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> >
> >> A rather incomprehensible message, so let's flesh this out a bit.
> >>
> >> Basically the problem occurs when patching linux/fs/reiserfs/namei.c It
> >> can't find it, presumably due to an error in 2.4.1, where it appears to
> >> me that reiserfs/ is located off of linux/ not linux/fs/. Simple to fix,
> >> I guess, though this would appear to mean that Linus made a mistake w/
> >> 2.4.1 (plz correct me if I'm wrong), though it could also be said that
> >> this means that Alan diff'd the wrong tree (basically a fixed tree in re
> >> reiserfs/)
> >
> >
> > A third possibility: an elf/gremlin munged your tree for grins ;-)
>
> maybe I coffed. 8-)
>
> >
> > ac20 went in clean here.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Granted that this is possible, yet how likely is it that two people
> would come up with the same problem, when they don't even know each
> other. 2nd, this was a fresh tree, i.e. 2.4.0 from tar.bz2, patch to
> 2.4.1, then patch to 2.4.1-ac20, therefore there likely must be
> something else. Maybe a similarly corrupted (shouldn't be possible w/
> bz2, let alone gz) 2.4.1 patch, or some such. Still, given that it was a
> d/l from zeus.kernel.org, it should be ok (short of somebody hacking the
> server. I rarely check the sigs)
Who shot John doesn't matter much. Bottom line is that your tree was
corrupt.. and now it's likely clean as a whistle ;-)
-Mike
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