Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:33:28 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ??? |
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:50:55AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
[ext2 errors and fdisk complaints on 2.4.0test8, patched?]
Andre,
(i) Geometry does not play any role in the functioning of Linux - it is only a matter to LILO and fdisk. So, if you meet a strange geometry, then that is surprising, but cannot cause other errors. Of course it is possible that the same bug causes both ext2 errors and a strange geometry report. (ii) You find exactly the same fdisk oddities, and exactly the same ext2 errors on each of four disks. This sounds more like a programming than like a hardware error, although of course I do not know what kind of hardware setup you use.
So, perhaps you should explain what you do. If this is an unpatched vanilla 2.4.0test8 then I am surprised. But if it is a patched version I would prefer to blame the patch.
> ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=2, rec_len=14, name_len=1 > > This did not happen in the past.
Do you have a reproducible situation, with a kernel that functions and a kernel that fails?
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