Re: [PATCH] don't divide by 0 when trying to mount ext3

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:27:11PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> There are now three cases that end up with the same message and
> same error from userspace viewpoint. There are many cases where 
> debugging a problem is helped when it's possible to find out exactly
> which test determined that the filesystem could not be mounted. 

Strings are expensive. Don't like to add worthless code.
We lived without this for years, so it is not a frequent occurrence.
If you have a bad ext2/ext3 system, e2fsck will find what is wrong.
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