From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) Subject: Re: 0.99p8-8 - ext2fs-problem Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 20:15:18 GMT
michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will) writes:
>Hello,
>I have some more information about ext2fs-problems to add.
>I use a 76MB-ext2fs-Partition, which I made with
> mke2fs /dev/hda3
>I have mounted it to /usr/spool/news.
>Everytime space gets narrow (it still says about 15MB, but this is
>small enough to trigger trouble), the uuxqt fails with
>
> "Kernel panic: ext2: get_group_desc: invalid group"
>After this message, the ext-2fs stood still, anything else not accessing it
>worked flawless, but a df or sync simply hang and could not got
>rid off by a "kill -9"...
>Are there any fixes available?
ext2fs-0.3 fixes that error...I can't remember the exact
line number, but just after line 392 in /linux/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
is an 'if (...' line that should be 'if (x >= y)', but is currently
at 'if (x > y)' Remy pointed that out to me, and once I fixed that,
I never received that error again :)
Simply upgrading to 0.99pl9 fixes it also, as pl9 uses
the new 0.3 code :)
marc