linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian (was: not enough memory for 522250 flex groups)

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Message-ID: <20081106165900.GC18939@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:59:00 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian  (was: not enough memory for
	522250 flex groups)

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 04:51:49PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Ok, I think I found it:
> 
> On big endianess plattforms newly created ext4 file systems cannot be mounted
> and show messages like:
> [6923911.715968] EXT4-fs: not enough memory for 522250 flex groups
> [6923911.715973] EXT4-fs: unable to initialize flex_bg meta info!
> 
> We have to access s_reserved_gdb_blocks with le16_to_cpu.

Aneesh has already submitted a patch to fix this; I'll be pushing it
to Linus shortly.

						- Ted
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