Ok, I think I found it: On big endianess plattforms newly created ext4 file systems cannot be mounted and show messages like: [6923911.715968] EXT4-fs: not enough memory for 522250 flex groups [6923911.715973] EXT4-fs: unable to initialize flex_bg meta info! We have to access s_reserved_gdb_blocks with le16_to_cpu. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: kvm/fs/ext4/super.c =================================================================== --- kvm.orig/fs/ext4/super.c +++ kvm/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_flex_info(struct su /* We allocate both existing and potentially added groups */ flex_group_count = ((sbi->s_groups_count + groups_per_flex - 1) + - ((sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks +1 ) << + (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_reserved_gdt_blocks + 1) << EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb))) / groups_per_flex; sbi->s_flex_groups = kzalloc(flex_group_count * -- 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