On Dec 7, 2013, at 5:17 AM, Jon Watte wrote: [snip] > However, yesterday when booting up agian, it refused to mount the root > disk, and booting was halted, with the messages shown in the below > photograph. Note that, because I can't boot, I can't get this output > in a copy-and-paste-able form! > > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaxOmptCYAABQuW.jpg:large > > The two repeated messages are (typed in from the photo): > NILFS: bad bree node (blocknr=1364234) ; level = 100; flags = 0x73; > nchildren = 12336 > NILFS error (device sda1): nilfs_bmap_lookup_contig: broken bmap > (inode number=3935) What linux kernel version do you have? I had fixed the reason of such problem by patch [1]. So, please check and share your kernel version, firstly. I suppose that you are simply using old kernel version. With the best regards, Vyacheslav Dubeyko. [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.nilfs.user/3082 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html