apeiron
2001-Nov-15 15:22 UTC
box standard kernel 2.2.x failes to mount cleanly unmounted ext3 partition
Hi Everyone! Just to let you know, I am very happy ext3 made it thorugh to linux kernel 2.4.15 We have installed ext3 on several machines here at jtrix.org (including two laptops) and everything seems to be working fine. Our only concern is for our two public servers. They run linux 2.2.19 for stability reasons. On one of the laptops (dual booting 2.2.19 and 2.4.14) kernel 2.2.19 failed to mount (as ext2, the kernel was not patched) a cleanly unmounted ext3 root partition (cleanly unmounted by 2.4.14). I can't reproduce the problem at the time being (the laptop is being used as a second Xinerama head at the moment), but I will report what messages we get. Has anybody had positive experience in mounting ext3 partitions as ext2 after a clean umount? Regards apeiron (filippo@jtrix.org)
Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-Nov-15 16:33 UTC
Re: box standard kernel 2.2.x failes to mount cleanly unmounted ext3 partition
Hi, On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:22:49PM +0000, apeiron wrote:> Our only concern is for our two public servers. They run linux 2.2.19 for > stability reasons. On one of the laptops (dual booting 2.2.19 and 2.4.14) > kernel 2.2.19 failed to mount (as ext2, the kernel was not patched) a cleanly > unmounted ext3 root partition (cleanly unmounted by 2.4.14). > I can't reproduce the problem at the time being (the laptop is being used as > a second Xinerama head at the moment), but I will report what messages we get. > Has anybody had positive experience in mounting ext3 partitions as ext2 after > a clean umount?Absolutely, it works every time for me. Please do let me know if you have any more information. Cheers, Stephen
Andreas Dilger
2001-Nov-15 18:34 UTC
Re: box standard kernel 2.2.x failes to mount cleanly unmounted ext3 partition
On Nov 15, 2001 15:22 +0000, apeiron wrote:> Our only concern is for our two public servers. They run linux 2.2.19 for > stability reasons. On one of the laptops (dual booting 2.2.19 and 2.4.14) > kernel 2.2.19 failed to mount (as ext2, the kernel was not patched) a cleanly > unmounted ext3 root partition (cleanly unmounted by 2.4.14).There is a _very_ old bug that used to cause this, but it has been fixed for a long time. What version of ext3 are you using?> I can't reproduce the problem at the time being (the laptop is being used as > a second Xinerama head at the moment), but I will report what messages we get. > Has anybody had positive experience in mounting ext3 partitions as ext2 after > a clean umount?Shouldn't be a problem at all (anymore). I've done this many times. At the very early days of ext3, there was a bug that the ext3 RECOVERY flag was not cleared at clean shutdown, but it was fixed for a year or more. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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