Re: 2.6.27 & ext4 strangeness

Alex Buell
2009-02-03T14:54:56Z

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:09:17 -0500, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Theodore Tso:

> If you can reproduce this, can you send me the output of "df /; df -i
> /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" (where XXX is your root device) before you
> reboot and force an fsck? And then can you send me the output of "df
> / ; df -i /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" after the 2nd reboot and forced fsck.
> I've never seen anything like this, so I don't know what to make of
> it.
>
> It also would be interesting to see if you can reproduce it running a
> kernel from the ext4-stable branch of the ext4 tree:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
>
> This has all of the ext4 fixes that is in the latest mainline, based
> on the 2.6.28 kernel.

I've not been able to reproduce this yet but when it happens again I
will drop you a email. I'm actually quite happy with ext4 ever since I
switched all my boxes over to that filesystem.

Thanks.