linux-kernel - Re: ext4: total breakdown on USB hdd, 3.0 kernel

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Message-ID: <20140627024801.GG6826@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:48:01 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4: total breakdown on USB hdd, 3.0 kernel

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:50:49PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> And for every bug in kernel, there's one in fsck: I did not expect it, but fsck actually
> suceeded, and marked fs as clean. But second fsck had issues with /lost+found...

I'd need the previous fsck transcript to have any idea what might have
happened.  I'll note though you are using an ancient version of e2fsck
(1.41.12, and there have been a huge number of bug fixes since
May 2010....)

						- Ted
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