I've seen problems relating to deleting files on ext2 floppies on 2.4.3-2.14.19 i686 and 2.2.19-6.2.1smp i686. The others are probably affected too. I noticed these when I had to mount /mnt/floppy; rm /mnt/floppy/* ; (copy something on floppy) ; umount /mnt/floppy many times (copy a few files over one by one to recover a fubared system). At some point, I may have forgotten to unmount the floppy before removing it (or the like..). On 2.4.3 I got: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0145df7>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00013283 eax: c04814a0 ebx: c04814a0 ecx: 00000000 edx: c3ad3c00 esi: c02388c0 edi: c711eae0 ebp: bffff6f8 esp: c25fdf2c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process rm (pid: 15770, stackpage=c25fd000) Stack: c2807800 c0157255 c0157267 c2807800 c711eae0 c04814a0 c01443bc c04814a0 c711e960 fffffff0 c1f68d60 c711eae0 00000000 c1f68d60 c013dcc2 c711eae0 c711e960 c25fdf9c 00000000 ffffffeb c711eae0 c711eae0 c38d5000 c013dd89 Call Trace: [<c0157255>] [<c0157267>] [<c01443bc>] [<c013dcc2>] [<c013dd89>] [<c0112d10>] [<c0106d1b>] Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available >>EIP; c0145df7 <iput_free+b7/140> <===== Trace; c0157255 <ext2_unlink+d5/100> Trace; c0157267 <ext2_unlink+e7/100> Trace; c01443bc <d_delete+4c/70> Trace; c013dcc2 <vfs_unlink+122/150> Trace; c013dd89 <sys_unlink+99/110> Trace; c0112d10 <do_page_fault+0/470> Trace; c0106d1b <system_call+33/38> On 2.2.19 (actually RHL62 system): kernel panic: EXT2-fs panic (device fd(2,0)): load_block_bitmap: block_group >= groups_count - block_group = 524287, groups_count = 1 (copied by hand) No oops, I was on from serial console. 2.2.19 froze hard; 2.4.3 is still usable (minus floppy). If this looks like something that could use investigating, I could try to replicate it but I'd like to hear of what to focus on first.
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