From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vitaly Fertman Subject: Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:56:00 +0400 Message-ID: <200408102156.00690.vitaly@namesys.com> References: <200408101948.29202.frbiscani@jumpy.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200408101948.29202.frbiscani@jumpy.it> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Francesco Biscani , reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Tuesday 10 August 2004 21:48, Francesco Biscani wrote: > Hi, > > lately whenever I run fsck.reiser4 I get loads of errors about wrong sizes, > e.g., something like [1] "Object foo (stat40) has wrong size, should be X > bytes". fsck suggests to --fix them, which I do, and indeed another run of > fsck confirms that there are no problems. However after mounting the > partition and working a bit on it, I get those size errors again, even if > the partition was umounted cleanly. This happens: > > - with 0.5.6, 0.5.6-fixed and 1.0.0 reiser4progs, > - on two different partitions on two different machines, > - before and after updating the fs layout (by means of debugfs -C). > > I'm running the latest _stable_ snapshot (against 2.6.8-rc2-mm2), but I > remember this happening also with previous auto-snapshot (though it did not > use to happen in my early 0.5.6 days). What's going on here? > > Regards, > > Francesco > > > > [1] Sorry, I don't remember exactly the error message, will post it if > needed. are messages about 'wrong size' or about 'wrong bytes' or both? -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman