Re: NULL dereference on mount

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> hi,
> 
> as i wrote before i also experienced this problem.
> 
> > Yup, I've been looking into this.
> > What are you doing to blow the 128k  cache?
> i just tried a ~90gb large xfs ;-) (my box has 128mb ram and 512mb swap -
> this should be plenty...) 
>  
> > A "clean" file-system shouldn't be in reovery code, you must
> > have crashed the system at some point.
> i already sent a oops trace i got trying to mount the fresh 90gb
> xfs-partition.
>  

Another thing to try would be to mount the filesystem on a clean boot - i.e.
mkfs, reboot, then mount. I just want to isolate things as much as possible
here - I suspect this will still fail.

Steve