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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Chris Hunter <chris.hunter@yale.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: errors following ext3 to ext4 conversion
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:43:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DE8771.9050109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827033949.GA12151@thunk.org>

On 8/26/15 10:39 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Merely turning on the extents feature doesn't actually convert any
> files to use extents.  So if e2fsck is showing errors like this:
> 
>> e2fsck shows a variety of errors:
>> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
>> Inode 118843400, end of extent exceeds allowed value
>>         (logical block 1409, physical block 3803034390, len 976)
>> Inode 118843400, end of extent exceeds allowed value
>>         (logical block 2385, physical block 3803056554, len 4294966945)
> 
> This suggests that the file system was likely corrupted before you
> tried converting the file system, since there should not have been any
> extent-mapped files in an ext3 file system.

Hm, do we not require a freshly-fsck'd fs (tm) prior to a conversion attempt,
like we do (I think) for resize?

That might be a good idea ...

-Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27  0:53 errors following ext3 to ext4 conversion Chris Hunter
2015-08-27  3:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-08-27  3:43   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-08-27  4:15     ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-08-27 18:58       ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-08-27 19:28         ` Chris Hunter
2015-08-27 22:46           ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-08-28 16:23             ` Chris Hunter
2015-08-28 18:32               ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-08-27 21:34         ` Eric Sandeen
2015-08-28 16:09 ` Andreas Dilger

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