On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:03:33PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > Hi - I'm trying out ext4 on a large 8.2 TB software raid device (md). On > rebooting (cleanly unmounting), I tried an fsck on the device. I get the > following: > > [root@xback2 ~]# fsck /dev/md0 > fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) > e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) > fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... > Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid. Fix<y>? > > It then finds lots of bad group descriptors. What happened afterwards? Did fsck complete successfully? I see from the dumpe2fs that you sent it had only been in use for a week. How were you using the filesystem? Did you try using the online resize feature at any time? The problem is that any number of things could have caused the block group descriptors to be corrupted. - Ted -- 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
