On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:41:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > This report just came in on the fedora list... > > EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 717: > 23410 blocks in bitmap, 23411 in gd > > EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 721: > 19309 blocks in bitmap, 19333 in gd > > has anyone else seen this problem in testing? I guess it means > freespace accounting got out of sync...? We have seen this on ldiskfs, one time a hardware raid was writing data garbage and one time it was after a Lustre upgrade from 1.4 to 1.6 with a filesystem that probably already had errors before the upgrade. So maybe this message is a good indicator for generic problems? Cheers, Bernd -- 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