linux-kernel - Re: Weird ext4 bug: 256P used?

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:08:25 +0300
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weird ext4 bug: 256P used?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:27:48AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> stat /var/lib/yum/yumdb/s/160f96bb8689bae7bed1f8801385845d47913ace-skype-2.0.0.72-fc5-i586
>>   File: `/var/lib/yum/yumdb/s/160f96bb8689bae7bed1f8801385845d47913ace-skype-2.0.0.72-fc5-i586'
>>   Size: 4096          Blocks: 281470681743368 IO Block: 4096   directory
>> Device: fe00h/65024d  Inode: 141257      Links: 2
>> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (4294901760/ UNKNOWN)   Gid: (16711680/ UNKNOWN)
>> Access: 2009-10-12 16:36:22.326920328 +0300
>> Modify: 2009-07-27 20:52:23.000000000 +0300
>> Change: 2009-07-27 20:52:23.000000000 +0300
>
> OK, I see what's going on.   i_blocks_hi is getting set to 0xFFFF.
>
> So I definitely see the bug in e2fsck in not reporitng and fixing the
> problem (and I'll fix that).  I'm not sure how i_blocks_hi got set to
> that value, though; it looks like everything should be doing the right
> thing in the latest mainline kernel.  What version of the kernel are
> you using?

I was using F11 kernels, and at some point I went back to compile my
own kernels. I think I started with 2.6.31 and now 2.6.31.1.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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