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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904201353540.17316@xpc17.ast.cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:54:46 +0100 (BST) From: Jeremy Sanders <jss@....cam.ac.uk> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > That's that's useful data. I wish we could make it fail more quickly > on a smaller rsync, but the fact that you didn't need to reboot is > definitely useful information. > > And this is a fresh rsync so no files were being deleted, rsync should > have just been writing new files to .filename.XXXXX and then renaming > the filename to filename.XXXXX when it is done, right? That's what I'd guess. It was onto a clean filesystem, so there shouldn't be any deletions. > OK, let me think about this a little. I think we can create a patch > which checks for writes to the block group descriptors and dumps a > stack trace. That would allow us catch the failing code in question > in the act, and maybe figure out what is going on. Ok. 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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