linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext2: fix error msg when mounting fs with too-large blocksize

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Date:	Thu, 5 May 2011 13:23:21 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: fix error msg when mounting fs with too-large
 blocksize

On Thu 05-05-11 10:44:04, Robin Dong wrote:
> When ext2 mounts a filesystem, it attempts to set the block device
> blocksize with a call to sb_set_blocksize, which can fail for
> several reasons.  The current failure message in ext2 prints:
> 
>   EXT2-fs (loop1): error: blocksize is too small
> 
> which is not correct in all cases.  This can be demonstrated
> by creating a filesystem with
> 
>   # mkfs.ext2 -b 8192
> 
> on a 4k page system, and attempting to mount it.
> 
> Change the error message to a more generic:
> 
>   EXT2-fs (loop1): bad blocksize 8192
> 
> to match the error message in ext3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@...bao.com>
> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <bosong.ly@...bao.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
  Thanks. Merged into my tree.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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