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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:53:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jeremy Sanders <jss@....cam.ac.uk> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Theodore Tso wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:43:37PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: >>>> It takes a day or two to do the sync. I've only done it twice (one with >>>> the old kernel, once with the new fedora testing kernel) and it happened >>>> both times. I'm afraid the statistics are rather low number here. >>>> >>>> I did a different faster test (just copying my home directory lots of >>>> times), but I wasn't able to get it to fail. That test didn't use much >>>> disk space, however. Maybe it's worth just dd'ing a few TB of data onto >>>> the device and seeing whether that fails. >>>> >>>> I didn't reboot this time - I did last time. I just unmounted the file >>>> system and fsckd it. The filesystem is 8.2TB and the data is around >>>> 2.5TB. >> >> I think trying a filesystem with just under 8T would be a useful test too. > > One other question - do you make use of xattrs on this filesystem? No. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss@....cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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