All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
To: hsimon@optusnet.com.au
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Zero Bit found
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:08:14 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4104D80E.20209@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6913951.1090812351701.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@neptune.hsc-consulting.com.au>

Hello

Horst Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently added a 200GB Seagate IDE drive to my system on a build-in
> promise controller on an ASUS A7V, updated BIOS which supports large
> disk drives.
> The O/S is United Linux 1.0 with the latest patches and the kernel
> version is
> 2.4.21 with latest United Linux patches. The reiserfs is 3.6. During the
> initial
> setup and first reboot no reiserfsck errors are report. After writing
> data to the disk I get now following reiserfsck messages during each
> boot:
> 
>  ZERO BIT FOUND IN ON-DISK BITMAP AFTER THE LAST VALID BIT
> Switching to --fix-fixable mode
> Checking
> 
> It displays directory paths which it is checking and after finishing
> following message is displayed:
> 
> The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differ. Will be fixed later
> 
> No corruption found
> 
> There are on the filesystem:
> 
>     Leaves 20264
> 
>       Internal nodes 125
> 
>         Directories 2063
> 
>   Other files 22869
> 
>  Data block pointers 15940960 (0 of them are zero)
> 
>  Safe links 0
> 
> ###########
> 
> What is this ZERO BIT, is this a serious problem? 

No, it is not. Reiserfs manages disk space by bitmaps. Those bitmaps are stored in disk blocks.
Reiserfsck expects last bitmap to be filled by 1s in the area which address blocks out of device.
Somehow you got that padding area in last bitmap incorrectly initialized.
It is completely harmless.

What could be wrong
> bad BIOS, reiserfs, etc.?
> 

What version of reiserfsprogs you are using?


> Regards,
> Horst
> 
> 
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-26 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26  3:25 Zero Bit found Horst Simon
2004-07-26 10:08 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev [this message]
2004-07-26 22:59   ` Horst Simon
2004-07-27  7:06     ` Hans Reiser
2004-07-27 10:45       ` Horst Simon
2004-07-26 10:15 ` Vitaly Fertman
2004-07-26 10:16   ` Vitaly Fertman
2004-07-26 23:02   ` Horst Simon
2004-08-10 13:13   ` Horst Simon

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4104D80E.20209@namesys.com \
    --to=vs@namesys.com \
    --cc=hsimon@optusnet.com.au \
    --cc=reiserfs-list@namesys.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.