Frank Mayhar wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:03 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Frank Mayhar wrote: >>> We're seeing errors like: >>> EXT4-fs error (device sda3): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 3049: 21020 blocks in bitmap, 21529 in gd >>> >>> Usually after this the system is cleaned and in the process we see many >>> "mb_free_blocks: double-free of inode x's block y(bit z in group d)". >>> (In fact, we see exactly as many of these as the difference between the >>> group and computed count of free blocks.) >>> >>> It looks like the bitmap itself is getting messed up somehow, at least >>> enough to make the free count disagree with the map itself. Has anyone >>> else seen something like this? Any pointers as to where to look for >>> potential culprits? >> Which kernel, for starters? > > It's our development kernel, 2.6.26 plus as many of the ext4/jbd2 > patches as we can comfortably pull in. which makes it a little tough; can you test on upstream too to see if it persists? At this point you are becoming your own distribution (but I suppose you are used to that) ;) -Eric -- 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
