Re: address@hidden: Bug#136501: Parted segfaults on startup with Minix-created partition table]

[adilger]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:50:56PM +0200, Jaakko Kangasharju wrote:
> Andreas Dilger <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Mar 07, 2002  21:11 +0200, Jaakko Kangasharju wrote:
> > > open("/dev/hdb2", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> > > ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF <unfinished ...>
> > 
> > Are you running ext3 on this system?  In fact, an older ext3 with a 2.2
> > kernel?
> 
> No, only ext2.  But I rebooted with kernel 2.4.2 and there parted
> didn't segfault so I was able to modify the partitions.  So this only
> happens with kernel 2.4.10.  These kernels are both self-built.  If
> you want, I can send the config files.

2.4.10 is a bad kernel, because the block device from user-space and
kernel space is not cache-coherent.  Don't use it.

Cheers, Andreas