Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:01:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:01:45 -0500 Received: from a56d18.elisa.omakaista.fi ([212.54.5.56]:7296 "EHLO masiina.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:01:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3C1E5D26.8050400@retiisi.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:01:26 +0200 From: Sakari Ailus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: fi, en-us, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiserfs corruption on 2.4.17-rc1! In-Reply-To: <20011216184836.A418@diego> <20011216211208.D5226@vestdata.no> <20011217025856.A1649@diego> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Diego Calleja wrote: > badblocks -n (non-destructive write-test) -vv /dev/hdc5 > results in: > attempt to access beyond end of device > 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067 > attempt to access beyond end of device > 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067 > attempt to access beyond end of device > 16:05: rw=0, want=9671068, limit=9671067 > 3 bad blocks found > > This means it's broken? No, it is what it says, AFAIK. read/write/whatever system call tries to access past end of device although it isn't asked to (or the problem is somewhere deeper). This has happened to me on swap partition which had fairly dramatic effect. ;-) Not using last few blocks solved the problem. Of course, this shouldn't be the case... -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@retiisi.dyndns.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/