ext2: block > big ?

ext2: block > big ?

[Brian Grossman]

What does a message like 'ext2: block > big' indicate?

This was kernel 2.2.18aa2.

The machine was completely unresponsive when I got there.  There were a
bunch of block>big messages on the screen, but no oops.

In my grogginess, I didn't have the sense to copy down the whole message,
but it did also mention the device (8,9?).  The major 8 scsi devices in use
are three partitions of one disk -- two 15GB and one 50GB.

Brian
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Re: ext2: block > big ?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

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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