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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix ext3 warning for unused var
Al Viro wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:18:17PM -0600, jmerkey wrote:
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>>If they all use the same on disk formats as their basic structure,
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>ext3 and reiserfs? No, they do not.
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>>fsck
>>should not return gt > 1 due to misinterpreting reiser on-disk
>>structures. It should say "oh not one of mine, skipping". Instead it
>>returns an error claiming massive corruption, and halts the system. I
>>just upgraded my wifes computer from Suse to RedHat FC4 and when it hits
>>the reiser partitions, the whole system explodes due to fsck.ext3
>>misrecognizing reiser partitions.
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>Since when does fsck run fsck.ext3 on filesystems that are not marked
>as ext3 in /etc/fstab?
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>>I had to modify rc.sysinit and blank
>>the partitions with fdisk to get it to install. After it installed, I
>>recreated the partitions (after writing down what they were in the first
>>place for block #'s etc.) and disabled rc.sysinit checks. This is
>>busted. Hans needs to fix fsck.ext3 and submit a patch or redhat does.
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>Sorry, but I doubt that Hans or anybody in RH knows how to patch
>

---> wetware, <----

Is this the new "official" non-official slang word for Suse Linux?

Jeff


>let alone one as messed up as yours.
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