Dear list, Jan

In subsequent private correspondence, Jan Harkes wrote (Jan, I hope you 
don't mind me forwarding this, but others might benefit):

>I just checked the Linux kernel changelogs, and, sorry my fault. I mixed
>up the 'ramfs' fix which was merged in 2.4.4 with the 'ext3' fix that
>got merged only by the time we hit 2.4.10.
>
>You need a 2.4.10 or later kernel.
>
>Jan
>    
>    2.4.1-pre12
>    - Coda: use iget4() in order to have big inode numbers without clashes.
>
>    2.4.2-pre4
>    - Coda-fs error return fixes
>
>    2.4.4-pre7
>    - Jan Harkes: make Coda use the proper VFS layer interfaces, so that it
>    can use "non-traditional-unix" filesystems without inode numbers for
>    backing store.
>
>    2.4.10-pre15
>    - Jan Harkes: make Coda work with arbitrary host filesystems, not just
>    filesystems that use generic_file_read/write
>

Indeed, after upgrading to 2.4.17, the problem with Coda & ext3 has gone 
away for me.  Thanks for your help.

Cheers
- Vaughan

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