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  1. Bug #257048
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 257048

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote : Re: [Bug 257048] Re: e2fsck crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:48:08PM -0000, ingo wrote:
> one more information:
>
> when trying to mount /dev/sdc3 I get following message:
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc3 /mnt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc3,
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>
> checking 'dmesg' afterwards tells me:
>
> [ 7905.568588] EXT3-fs: sdc3: couldn't mount because of unsupported
> optional features (40).

This is not surprising at all; sdc3 has the extents feature, which
ext3 doesn't support. And that's where the (40) comes from:

#define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS 0x0040

       - Ted