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 message,
but it did also mention the device (8,9?). The major 8 scsi devices in use
are three partitions of one disk -- two 15GB and one 50GB.
Brian
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 05:44:02PM -0700, Brian Grossman wrote:
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> 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 for that limit and won't attempt to write
beyond the boundary.
Cheers,
Stephen