From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MmT2b-0006W5-A5 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:25 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmT2Z-0006VU-PD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmT2V-0006T3-SW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48222 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmT2V-0006T0-Ow for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:19 -0400 Received: from gold.linx.net ([195.66.232.40]:56158) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmT2V-0002E2-8e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:19 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.linx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0811007E for ; 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micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-L2/f8KQAYdaWnoSpYjKm" Organization: London Internet Exchange (LINX; AS5459) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:54:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1252763662.16706.2.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: ~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:53:24 -0000 --=-L2/f8KQAYdaWnoSpYjKm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D1,data=3Dordered) 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 / $=20 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. --=-L2/f8KQAYdaWnoSpYjKm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; 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