On Wednesday 25 February 2004 16:35, Hans Reiser wrote: > Vitaly Fertman wrote: > >Hello, > > > >On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:41, Bob Vincent wrote: > >>I've been playing around with reiser4 on a non-critical machine at work, > >>and managed to corrupt a 20-gig reiser4 partition. > >> > >>I've run fsck.reiser4 several times to no avail; finally downloaded > >>and compiled the 2.6.3-internal-testing-going-on version of the utils. > >> > >>(much later...) > >> > >>Well, unlike the other versions; this one completed the fsck okay. > >> > >>Just wondering what the following message means? > >> > >> Warning: Can't find stat data extension plugin by its id 0x4. > >> > >>I see it quite often. > > > >If an object is created with some non standard plugins, their ids > >are stored in the special extention of the object stat data. But this > >extention plugin is not ready in the progs yet. > > Why is fsck finding non-standard plugins on his computer?
fsck found 4th bit set in the extension mask for this file, not non-standard plugins. As I know Bob could call ioctl(UNPACK) on this file, probably smth else? Another reason is a corruption. -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman
