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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailinlinux-ext4@vger.kernel.orgg List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4fs error "ext4_mb_generate_buddy:741:group 16, 8160 clusters in bitmap, 4064 in gd" (with repro)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:06:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120809170640.GA6607@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50238A29.3060808@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:00:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Here is how to reproduce it.  It happens during fstrim.  I found other
> occurrences of the error in the mailing list, but they were not related
> to trim so they may be something different.
> 
> modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=256 lbpws=1
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M      
> fdisk /dev/sdb
>  >> create a new partition accepting all defaults
> fdisk -lu /dev/sdb|tail -1
>  >> should show: /dev/sdb1     57      524285      262114+  83  Linux
> 
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
> mkdir test
> mount /dev/sdb1 test
> fstrim ./test

I can confirm that this accurately reproduces file system corruption
using a 3.5 kernel.  It looks like some block allocation bitmap blocks
is getting trimmed when it shouldn't have been.  Lukas, can you take a
look at this?

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-09 10:00 ext4fs error "ext4_mb_generate_buddy:741:group 16, 8160 clusters in bitmap, 4064 in gd" (with repro) Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-09 17:06 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-08-15  9:17   ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-08-16 14:28     ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-08-16 20:00       ` Theodore Ts'o

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