From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: metadata_csum + unclean shutdown = failure to boot Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20121007181025.GA30198@thunk.org> References: <507185F8.3040700@tao.ma> <20121007150919.17299.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tm@tao.ma, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: George Spelvin Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:54303 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751861Ab2JGSKb (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:10:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121007150919.17299.qmail@science.horizon.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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