We should complain in dmesg when journal recovery fails on account of the descriptor block being corrupt, so that the diagnostic data can be recovered. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/recovery.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c index bcbef08..b5128c6 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c @@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal, if (descr_csum_size > 0 && !jbd2_descr_block_csum_verify(journal, bh->b_data)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: Invalid checksum " + "recovering block %lu in log\n", + next_log_block); err = -EIO; brelse(bh); goto failed; -- 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