Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:54:27 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix UFS superblock alignment issues |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:22:30 -0600 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote: > > ufs2 fails to mount on x86_64, claiming bad magic. This is because > > ufs_super_block_third's fs_un1 member is padded out by 4 bytes for > > 8-byte alignment, pushing down the rest of the struct. > > > > Forcing this to be packed solves it. I took a quick look over > > other on-disk structures and didn't immediately find other problems. > > I was able to mount & ls a populated ufs2 filesystem w/ this change. > > I should also mention that this seems to be a regression from > 2.6.17->2.6.18, so perhaps it's a candidate for 2.6.18.x updates.
Please send it to stable@kernel.org .
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