From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754840AbZBCOy4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:54:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752662AbZBCOyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:54:47 -0500 Received: from sov-mail-b0010.gradwell.net ([193.84.87.34]:40282 "EHLO sov-mail-b0010.gradwell.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751987AbZBCOyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:54:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:54:01 +0000 From: Alex Buell To: Theodore Tso Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27 & ext4 strangeness Message-ID: <20090203145401.08af7fe8@lithium.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20090131000917.GB27950@mit.edu> References: <20090130194702.5a2ca774@lithium.local.net> <20090131000917.GB27950@mit.edu> Organization: One tortoiseshell cat, very high maintenance X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "wUuhsy:X)M;>-dA\j"&y@*\$91]iX10Iv1WG_oNbGYpo,eqc06O?"VSeRTx]xM\LiITUh01z}<|GF/4Gzz(MAU~;p4AS,%TB69M:vB-9+i'#W7$UQCW&UP#zt{VdLlzEiw8k~jL< Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- http://www.munted.org.uk Fearsome grindings.