linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 fails on ext2 filesystems

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Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:38:41 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	Jörg Sommer <joerg@...a.gnuu.de>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 fails on ext2 filesystems

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:35:16AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> 
> But when remounting the filesystem read/write and changing a file, the
> changes are written to the filesystem, but it's remounted readonly
> immediatly. I've set the mount option remount-ro.
> 
> [  203.082300] EXT4 FS on hda3, no journal
> [  205.746713] EXT4-fs error (device hda3): ext4_free_data: circular indirect block detected, inode=165056, block=184476
> 

Can you do me a favor?  Can you run debugfs /dev/hda3, and then run
the debugfs command: "stat <165056>"?  

Any thanks!!

					- Ted

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