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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Avantika Mathur <mathur@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uninitialized groups ported - kernel
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:04:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622160454.GM5181@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467B0FA6.1090509@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Jun 21, 2007  16:54 -0700, Avantika Mathur wrote:
> Kernel build was failing with the uninitialized patches when 
> CONFIG_CRC16=m. The patch below resolves this issue.

No patch?

> Also, when testing the patches, filesystem mount fails:
> 
> EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): ext4_check_descriptors: Checksum for group 1 
> failed (0!=1)
> 
> EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
> 
> EXT4-fs error (device sdc1): ext4_check_descriptors: Checksum for group 7 
> failed (0!=1)
> 
> Even though the uninitgrps feature is not enabled, the gdp->bg_checksum 
> on disk is nonzero.

Can you figure out why the on-disk checksum is non-zero?  That should not
happen.  Is it possible that the kernel patch and e2fsprogs somehow have
the wrong struct alignment?  Is mke2fs not zeroing out the on-disk data -
the error is reporting that bg_checksum on disk is 1 when it should be 0?

I suppose it is possible for the patch to just ignore the on-disk data if
checksums are not enabled, but we didn't have any such problems in the past...


Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 17:48 [PATCH] uninitialized groups ported - kernel Avantika Mathur
2007-06-05 18:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-06-05 21:20   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-19  4:04     ` Avantika Mathur
2007-06-19  7:50       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-20 11:56         ` Girish Shilamkar
2007-06-21 17:37           ` Andreas Dilger
2007-06-21 23:54             ` Avantika Mathur
2007-06-22 16:04               ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-06-22 16:20               ` Dave Kleikamp

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