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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Brian Grossman <brian@SoftHome.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ext2: block > big ?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:50:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010212155014.A32551@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010212004402.3433.qmail@lindy.softhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010212004402.3433.qmail@lindy.softhome.net>; from brian@SoftHome.net on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700, Brian Grossman wrote:
> 
> What does a message like 'ext2: block > big' indicate?

An attempt was made to access a block beyond the legal max size for an
ext2 file.  That probably implies a corrupt inode, because the ext2
file write code checks for that limit and won't attempt to write
beyond the boundary.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-12 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-12  0:44 ext2: block > big ? Brian Grossman
2001-02-12 15:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]

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