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From: Phil Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unused block group, but all blocks not free?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 11:15:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555CA52F.3010109@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150520151007.GK2871@thunk.org>

On 5/20/2015 11:10 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Have you checked to see if the metadata for other block groups are
> taking up space in the block group.  This can happen when using the
> flex_bg layout.  (And without flex_bg, then *all* block groups will
> always have blocks in use, for their own metadata blocks.)

That was my first thought and no, they aren't.  The metadata is in bg 0 
and bg 32, not 25.  Even still, when the metadata is there, shouldn't 
the allocation bitmap mark those blocks as in use rather than be 
uninitialized?


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20  1:10 Unused block group, but all blocks not free? Phillip Susi
2015-05-20 15:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-20 15:15   ` Phil Susi [this message]
2015-05-20 16:31     ` Theodore Ts'o
     [not found]       ` <555D0541.1000804@ubuntu.com>
2015-05-21 23:59         ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-22  0:08           ` Phillip Susi
2015-05-22  2:28             ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-22 12:37               ` Phil Susi
2015-05-23  3:05                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-23 15:39                   ` Phillip Susi

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