Bas van Schaik wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:31:13PM +0100, Bas van Schaik wrote: >> >> >>>> Yeah, it could be quite big, given that you have a 3TB filesystem. That's >>>> why I suggested the "or given me login access to the system", although >>>> understand there could be all sorts of privacy and security issues >>>> involved with that request. >>>> >>>> >>> The dump is not ready yet... >>> >>> Whatever we will do, it will have to wait for a week and a half. For now I >>> really appreciate all the help. >>> >>> >> Ok, when you get back, I should also have a patch for you that will >> allow the "XXX should never happen" message to display more >> information, so if the dump is too big for us to move over the >> network, I'll have another way of doing some remote debugging. >> >> > Last night I returned from my holiday trip, so I'm available again. The > e2image dump completed somewhere during my absence and has grown to 1.6 > gigabytes (bzip2), too large to actually publish if you ask me. I think > it is okay to provide you access to the system, please contact me > (preferably using a GPG-encrypted message) so we can agree on the > details. Of course it would be great if you can send a patch which will > make e2fsck more verbose. Hmmm, it is starting to annoy me that I can't get the filesystem to work... I just tried to restore the ext3 metadata from a LVM snapshot (taken two weeks ago, before running e2fsck), but that didn't work: > # e2image /dev/loop1 e2image-pre-e2fsck-snapshot_2008-03-06 > e2image 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > # e2image -I /dev/loop2 e2image-pre-e2fsck-snapshot_2008-03-06 > e2image 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > e2image-pre-e2fsck-snapshot_2008-03-06: File too large (note that loop0 is the real filesystem which is messed up and looks unrecoverable, loop1 is the LVM snapshot I took before doing any attempt to fix loop0 and loop2 is a LVM snapshot of loop0 which I created a few hours ago to test e2image on without making things worse) Why is e2image refusing to restore the metadata, and what does "File too large" mean? I think this is pretty much the moment were I can say "HELP!!!" -- Bas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
