On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 01:28:34AM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote: > > Kernel is 2.6.33-rc1-00366-g2f99f5c > Ext4 mounts ext3 filesystem > > kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inode.c:1063! OK, that's this BUG which is triggering: if (mdb_free) { /* Account for allocated meta_blocks */ mdb_claim = EXT4_I(inode)->i_allocated_meta_blocks; BUG_ON(mdb_free < mdb_claim); <------- BUG triggered mdb_free -= mdb_claim; Can you replicate this? If so, I'd like to ask you to replicate with the following debugging patch applied: --- fs/ext4/inode.c 2009-12-24 17:55:03.736366001 -0500 +++ fs/ext4/inode.c.new 2009-12-24 18:02:58.556366024 -0500 @@ -1060,6 +1060,10 @@ if (mdb_free) { /* Account for allocated meta_blocks */ mdb_claim = EXT4_I(inode)->i_allocated_meta_blocks; + if (mdb_free < mdb_claim) + ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_ERR, "inode #%lu: " + "mdb_free (%d) < mdb_claim (%d) BUG\n", + inode->i_ino, mdb_free, mdb_claim); BUG_ON(mdb_free < mdb_claim); mdb_free -= mdb_claim; Then once you get the inode number (suppose it's 12345), please send the output of the following debugfs commands: debugfs: stat <12345> debugfs: ncheck 12345 Thanks!! - 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