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Message-ID: <20090203145401.08af7fe8@lithium.local.net> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:54:01 +0000 From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@...ted.org.uk> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27 & ext4 strangeness On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:09:17 -0500, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Theodore Tso: > If you can reproduce this, can you send me the output of "df /; df -i > /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" (where XXX is your root device) before you > reboot and force an fsck? And then can you send me the output of "df > / ; df -i /; dumpe2fs /dev/XXX" after the 2nd reboot and forced fsck. > I've never seen anything like this, so I don't know what to make of > it. > > It also would be interesting to see if you can reproduce it running a > kernel from the ext4-stable branch of the ext4 tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git > > This has all of the ext4 fixes that is in the latest mainline, based > on the 2.6.28 kernel. I've not been able to reproduce this yet but when it happens again I will drop you a email. I'm actually quite happy with ext4 ever since I switched all my boxes over to that filesystem. Thanks. -- http://www.munted.org.uk Fearsome grindings. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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