Re: [PATCH] libext2fs: use ext2fs_blocks_count() in ext2fs_open2()

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On Sep 02, 2009  17:33 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Justin Maggard wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Eric Sandeen<sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> You guys are still getting bad checksums?
> > 
> > Yeah, I am.
> 
> Oh, sorry, all the other bugs gave me a head-fake, and I forgot the
> original problem of -fsck- corrupting the checksums.  :)  I had a simple
> mkdir giving me the corruptions.  Ok, on to that.

I found the source of the checksum error last night - the reserved bytes
in the 64-bit group descriptor are not zero after the e2fsck is run.
It should be pretty easy to run e2fsck under gdb and put a hardware watch
on those bytes to see who twiddles them.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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