Re: Linux-2.4.18-rc3-ac3: bug with using whole disks as filesystems

From: Oleg Drokin (green@namesys.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 04:47:53 EST


Hello!

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:03:11PM +1000, David Luyer wrote:

> > Original commands to cause failure:
> > mkfs -b 8192 /dev/sdb -f
> > mount /dev/sdb /cache
> Actually looks like the -b 8192 was the problem, the same happened
> on /dev/sdb1. Had to reboot again after that as mount was hanging
> in the same way as cfdisk had previously. Similar 'kernel BUG'
> message resulted.

Linux kernel 2.4 reiserfs implementation lacks support for blocksizes
different from 4096 bytes, we plan to merge it in after 2.4.19 is out.
It have all the checks needed not to allow you to mount such volumes with
too big blocksizes.

Bye,
    Oleg
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