From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: [PATCH] ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error() Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:16:02 -0400 Message-ID: <1404602162-16730-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Theodore Ts'o , stable@vger.kernel.org To: Ext4 Developers List Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:47065 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753465AbaGEXQI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:16:08 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: We are spending a lot of time explaining to users what this error means. Let's try to improve the message to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 7f72f50..2dcb936 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -752,8 +752,8 @@ void ext4_mb_generate_buddy(struct super_block *sb, if (free != grp->bb_free) { ext4_grp_locked_error(sb, group, 0, 0, - "%u clusters in bitmap, %u in gd; " - "block bitmap corrupt.", + "block bitmap and bg descriptor " + "inconsistent: %u vs %u free clusters", free, grp->bb_free); /* * If we intend to continue, we consider group descriptor -- 2.0.0