Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:26:30 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Possible inode.c problem for EXT2 |
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Hi,
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:14:46 -0400, tytso@mit.edu said:
>> Well, that means the ext2 filesystem found ASCII data in either the >> inode table or an indirect metatdata block.
> I don't think so. > Look at what is printed...
> OK, I assumed Mike had converted the sector number back into a block > number, but obviously, without his actually sending actual data, this > may have been a bad assumption.
The ll_rw_block has already converted the raw ascii text on disk (in block numbers) into a sector number, so the reverse transform in the printk just restores what was in the original corrupt indirect block.
So it _does_ mean that we found text in an indirect block after all.
--Stephen
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