Ext3 users - Feb 2001 - Dead puppies (and Linux boxen) aren't much fun.

Fellow riders of the bleeding edge of ext3 technology,

	I've been playing with ext3 on my workstation.  For the most part it
has worked very well, but right now I have a non-functional system. 
I've got patches out the wazoo on this kernel - 2.2.18 + Alan's
2.2.19pre13 + ext3-0.0.6a + i2c-2.5.5 + lm_sensors-2.5.5 + udf-0.9.3.  

	Here is the output I get:

EXT3-fs: WARNING: recovery required on read-only filesystem
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery
EXT3-fs: 03:46: orphan cleanup on read-only fs

and then it sits there forever - I left it there overnight and it never
got any further.  I'm going to make up a rescue disk set w/ the ext3
tools and try to fix it.


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SWebster@EtcServices.com said:
> and then it sits there forever - I left it there overnight and it
> never got any further.  I'm going to make up a rescue disk set w/ the
> ext3 tools and try to fix it. 
Thats the bug discussed in the thread "That darned orphaned socket 
hang", last word was:-
sct@redhat.com said:
> ext3-0.0.6b will be out today to fix this.  I've been doing a heap of
> recovery testing over the past 2-3 weeks getting this sorted, and the
> two bugs above explain every single oddity I've seen in that time, so
> there are no more outstanding known bugs in the way of a codefreeze.
However that was friday morning and no code appeared.

The e2fstools 1.20WIP most recent sourceforge release, do not exhibit 
this problem.  If you can boot on a rescue disk, and use e2fsck (of 
that version only) on the filesystem, it will fix the problem in its 
userspace log replay.

	Nigel.
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