On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Eric Sandeen<sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - Immediately running e2fsck on the volume before ever mounting it >> will not complete, and results in the following: >> # e2fsck -n /dev/md2 >> e2fsck 1.41.7 (29-June-2009) >> Error reading block 2435874816 (Attempt to read block from filesystem >> resulted in short read). Ignore error? no > > This is roughly halfway through the filesystem; the journal is roughly > in the middle of the filesystem; this is just over 2^31 blocks. I bet > there are still ints or longs in the userspace journal code. I'll take > a look. Thanks for looking into this. That log message is from when I was running a 32-bit kernel, and I was apparently running into page cache index limitations. That error went away when I switched to a x86_64 kernel, but there are still other errors, as posted in one of my more recent messages. -Justin -- 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