Re: fsck: i_blocks is xxx should be yyy on ext3

[Mingming Cao]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Today I rebooted into 2.6.16-rc2-mm1.  Fsck checked a "clean" ext3 fs,
> >  because it was many mounts since the last time.
> > 
> >  I have seen that many times, but this time I got a lot of
> >  "i_blocks is xxx, should be yyy fix?"
> > 
> >  In all cases, the blocks were fixed to a lower number.
> 
> Yes, thanks.  It's due to the ext3_getblocks() patches in -mm.  I can't
> think of any actual harm which it'll cause.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> mkfs
> mount
> dbench 32
> <wait 20 seconds>
> killall dbench
> umount
> fsck
> -

Sorry about the late response.  I failed to reproduce the problem with
above instructions. I am running 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 kernel, played dbench
32 ,64 and 128, and tried both 8 cpu and 1 cpu, still no luck at last. I
am using e2fsck version 1.35 though. What versions you are using?


Thanks!

Mingming


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