michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will) writes:

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>Hello,

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>I have some more information about ext2fs-problems to add.

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>I use a 76MB-ext2fs-Partition, which I made with
>       mke2fs /dev/hda3

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>I have mounted it to /usr/spool/news.

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>Everytime space gets narrow (it still says about 15MB, but this is
>small enough to trigger trouble), the uuxqt fails with 
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>    "Kernel panic: ext2: get_group_desc: invalid group"

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>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"...

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>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