Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:48:46 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] ext3 fs corruption with 2.4.17 |
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On Jan 18, 2002 15:32 +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Does anybody knows what exactly this means and if it could be helpful to > track down the origin of the problems? Or did anybody else experienced this > messages before? > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:05:03PM +0100, root wrote: > > Jan 17 19:01:15 HOSTNAME kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 5931009 > > Jan 17 19:01:16 HOSTNAME kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 5931018 > > Jan 17 19:01:16 HOSTNAME kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 5931019 > [repeats several hundert times with increasing block numbers]
It means your block bitmap is corrupt and it says that metadata blocks are not in use, when they really are. That will lead to serious corruption.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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