In article <20041114052347.18769.qmail@patheticgeek.net>,
Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net> wrote:
>
>Alas, this only postponed the agony of the assert;  I could write
>a few files after the patch, but I still eventually got a crash.
>I think that the problem may actually *be* the assert.
>
>I checked, and ext2fs seemed to have been working just fine before 
>the commit that put in the assert;  when I added the assert to
>that working code, the assert triggered.  Removing the assert from
>the code doesn't seem to exposed any more bugs.
>
>I don't really feel comfortable enough with the filesystem code
>to say all this with any confidence.  Could someone else take a look
>and tell me if I'm crazy?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kevin
>kml@patheticgeek.net

The assert was added by chuck a long time ago, so I doubt it is at fault.
I suggest you put some debugging printfs to see in which cases the values
are different.

christos