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DateTue, 24 Mar 1998 21:51:24 +0100
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd)
Hi!

> However, I didn't think it was the kernel's fault: you really _should_
> fsck your fs's before mounting. I'm not sure how this should be solved;
> doesn't ext2 panic if a similarly fatal corruption is encountered?

No. Linux is *NOT* supposed to crash on broken filesystem. It does
crash, sometimes, but it is _BUG_, always.

[Well, other question is if that bug is worth hunting.]

								Pavel
-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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