linux-ext4 - Re: Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid

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Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:11:01 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:00:15PM -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when trying to convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4, I'm getting these 
> "Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid" messages. I've seen them before 
> and the net is full of them, but I still wonder if they're expected to 
> show up at all during the filesystem's first fsck. See below for the 
> script log.

Yes, it's expected.  We may try to make tune2fs better about fixing up
the checksums when enabling uninit_bg at some point in the future, but
for now, it's one of the reasons why tune2fs requests that you run
e2fsck on the file system.

					- Ted
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