Re: ext2: block > big ?

2001-02-12 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700, Brian Grossman wrote: > > What does a message like 'ext2: block > big' indicate? An attempt was made to access a block beyond the legal max size for an ext2 file. That probably implies a corrupt inode, because the ext2 file write co

Re: ext2: block big ?

2001-02-12 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700, Brian Grossman wrote: What does a message like 'ext2: block big' indicate? An attempt was made to access a block beyond the legal max size for an ext2 file. That probably implies a corrupt inode, because the ext2 file write code checks

ext2: block > big ?

2001-02-11 Thread Brian Grossman
What does a message like 'ext2: block > big' indicate? This was kernel 2.2.18aa2. The machine was completely unresponsive when I got there. There were a bunch of block>big messages on the screen, but no oops. In my grogginess, I didn't have the sense to copy down the whole m

ext2: block big ?

2001-02-11 Thread Brian Grossman
What does a message like 'ext2: block big' indicate? This was kernel 2.2.18aa2. The machine was completely unresponsive when I got there. There were a bunch of blockbig messages on the screen, but no oops. In my grogginess, I didn't have the sense to copy down the whole message, but it did