Problem creating external journal with ext3

[Jeff Layton]

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