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From: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 fails on ext2 filesystems
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:04:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090118100458.GA22064@alea.gnuu.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090118023841.GD25943@mit.edu>

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Hi Theodore,

Theodore Tso schrieb am Sat 17. Jan, 21:38 (-0500):
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:35:16AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > 
> > But when remounting the filesystem read/write and changing a file, the
> > changes are written to the filesystem, but it's remounted readonly
> > immediatly. I've set the mount option remount-ro.
> > 
> > [  203.082300] EXT4 FS on hda3, no journal
> > [  205.746713] EXT4-fs error (device hda3): ext4_free_data: circular indirect block detected, inode=165056, block=184476
> > 
> 
> Can you do me a favor?  Can you run debugfs /dev/hda3, and then run
> the debugfs command: "stat <165056>"?  

I've reproduced the error, because I've ran a fsck in the meantime:

% dmesg |tail G -F EXT
[24648.457402] EXT4 FS on hda3, no journal
[25253.227881] EXT4-fs error (device hda3): ext4_free_data: circular indirect block detected, inode=165056, block=184476

# debugfs /dev/hda3 <<<$'stat <165056>\ntestb 184476\nquit'
debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
debugfs:  stat <165056>
Inode: 165056   Type: regular    Mode:  0644   Flags: 0x0
Generation: 2419652156    Version: 0x00000000:00000001
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 0
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 0   Blockcount: 0
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
 ctime: 0x4972fd07:7463285e -- Sun Jan 18 10:57:27 2009
 atime: 0x4972fd06:acc79ebb -- Sun Jan 18 10:57:26 2009
 mtime: 0x4972fd07:7463285e -- Sun Jan 18 10:57:27 2009
crtime: 0x06fd7249:acc79ebb -- Wed Sep 19 08:52:41 1973
dtime: 0x4972fd07 -- Sun Jan 18 10:57:27 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 28
BLOCKS:

debugfs:  testb 184476
Block 184476 not in use
debugfs:  quit

Bye, Jörg.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-18 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-18  1:35 ext4 fails on ext2 filesystems Jörg Sommer
2009-01-18  2:38 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-18 10:04   ` Jörg Sommer [this message]
2009-01-20 14:51     ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-21 18:45       ` Jörg Sommer
2009-01-21 19:58         ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-19 23:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-20 13:56   ` Jörg Sommer

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