Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:13:42 -0800 | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: Something broken in sys_swapon |
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:31:25PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Simon Kirby wrote: > > > kdev_t dev = swap_inode->i_rdev; > > struct block_device_operations *bdops; > > > > p->swap_device = dev; > > set_blocksize(dev, PAGE_SIZE); > > > > I don't know much at all about the inode structure, but doesn't this set > > the block size of the originating filesystem containing the inode rather > > than the block device that inode happens to be pointing to? That would > > man 2 stat > > i_rdev is equivalent of st_rdev, i_dev - of st_dev.
Okay, would you see any other reason why my root filesystem would completely blow up after swapon /dev/hdb2 when /dev/hdb no longer exists?
All I did was remove /dev/hdb and forget to take the swap entry out of /etc/fstab. On boot I got "attempt to access beyond end of device" messages looping endlessly. I tried once with / mounted rw (it looks like Debian still has / mounted ro when it turns on swap), and lots of filesystem corruption resulted.
Simon-
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