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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: tm@tao.ma, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:10:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121007181025.GA30198@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121007150919.17299.qmail@science.horizon.com>

I just had a random thought.  Which bootloader are you using?  Is it
grub, or grub2 per chance?

I wonder if it's grub modifying the file system and touching the
superblock, and not knowing about the new metadata checksum feature....

	    	    	    	      	  - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-07 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-07  5:04 metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot George Spelvin
2012-10-07 13:39 ` Tao Ma
2012-10-07 15:09   ` George Spelvin
2012-10-07 18:10     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2012-10-07 20:18       ` George Spelvin
2012-10-07 22:54         ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-08  1:05           ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  1:25           ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  2:41             ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-08  3:17               ` George Spelvin
2012-10-08  4:03                 ` Tao Ma
2012-10-08 11:35                   ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  1:05               ` ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock George Spelvin
2012-11-01  1:13                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  1:50                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-01  3:22                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  6:12                     ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  6:49                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  7:07                         ` George Spelvin
2012-11-01  7:18                           ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01  7:28                             ` George Spelvin
2012-11-02  0:05                               ` Darrick J. Wong

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