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From: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252763662.16706.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252350805.4234.6.camel@localhost>

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On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 20:13 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote:
> It would appear that the ext2-fs driver is not reliably able to read
> directories on my ~3TB / filesystem:
> /dev/root             3.4T  1.7T  1.6T  52% /
> /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

Specifically, directories with a high inode number (such as boot) are
inaccessible:
chainsaw@prometheus / $ ls -il
total 88
451559425 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root   4096 2009-09-10 22:49 bin
388333569 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root   4096 2009-09-02 23:55 boot
425263105 drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root   4096 2009-08-30 16:48 bot
402980865 drwxr-xr-x  20 chainsaw wheel  4096 2009-09-09 21:54 cvs
      126 drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root  13480 2009-09-10 22:27 dev
411828225 drwxr-xr-x  88 root     root   4096 2009-09-12 13:32 etc
303431681 drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root   4096 2009-01-10 13:22 home
    49153 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root      5 2009-08-30 07:23 lib ->
lib64
223494145 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root   4096 2009-08-30 07:23 lib32
412385281 drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root   8192 2009-09-10 22:50 lib64
       11 drwx------   2 root     root  16384 2008-05-30 03:41 lost
+found
308363265 drwxrwxr-x   9 root     wheel  4096 2009-09-10 22:27 media
114933761 drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root   4096 2009-08-16 02:18 mnt
127959041 drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root   4096 2009-08-31 00:01 opt
        1 dr-xr-xr-x 217 root     root      0 2009-09-10 22:26 proc
 48660481 drwx------  18 root     root   4096 2009-09-12 13:55 root
 29343745 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root   4096 2009-09-10 22:50 sbin
        1 drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root      0 2009-09-10 22:26 sys
307658753 drwxrwxrwt  14 root     root   8192 2009-09-12 13:55 tmp
195330049 drwxr-xr-x  17 root     root   4096 2009-08-30 07:52 usr
163430401 drwxr-xr-x  14 root     root   4096 2009-08-30 02:44 var
chainsaw@prometheus / $ 

Inaccessible directories appear empty but do not provoke any errors
(which is why it breaks Grub2 startup rather badly, I have to change
prefix, insmod normal, normal, etc)

Regards,
Tony V.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-12 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 19:13 ~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2 Tony Vroon
2009-09-12 13:54 ` Tony Vroon [this message]
2010-02-24 10:49 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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