Problem creating external journal with ext3
Jeff Layton
laytonjb at att.net
Tue Mar 17 12:25:31 UTC 2009
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 02:21:58PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
>> Afternoon,
>>
>>
>> mke2fs -O journal_dev /dev/sdb1
>> mke2fs -t ext3 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdba1
>> tune2fs -o journal_data -j -J device=/dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1
>>
>
> Ah, I see what is happening. When we added some consistency checks to
> prevent insane filesystems from causing e2fsprogs to core dump, we
> accidentally broke the ability of e2fsprogs manipulate journal device
> files. Oops. This is a regression in e2fsprogs 1.41.4, that we'll
> fix in e2fsprogs 1.41.5. I've included the patch below.
>
> - Ted
>
Thanks! I'll give the patch a whirl and keep an eye out for 1.41.5.
Jeff
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