Hello,
On Wed 24-10-07 14:15:40, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Seems that we are now getting strange errors mounting an ext2 root
> filesystem under 2.6.23-git18:
>
> EXT2-fs error (device sda1): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2:
> rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
> name_len=0
Hmm, zero length entry in a root directory. Not nice.
> This seems to be occuring consistently since 2.6.23-git18. I have been
> back and rerun a -git17 job to confirm its not visible at that level.
> This bug is expressing itself in 2.6.23-rc1 also.
>
> I am suspicious of this commit in the -git17 -> -git18 block:
>
> commit 89910cccb8fec0c1140d33a743e72a712efd4f05
> Author: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun Oct 21 16:41:40 2007 -0700
>
> ext2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
>
> /me goes debug this a bit more.
Hmm, I'd suspect that too ;) But I swear I actually tested the code ;)
So what are you using the filesystem for (or do you get the error
immediately when mounting)? How large is the filesystem?
Honza
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Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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