From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:36:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20090417163617.GB26479@mit.edu> References: <20090417115659.GB7117@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Sanders Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:39434 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758861AbZDQQgV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:36:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:24:16PM +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > > I see from the dumpe2fs that you sent it had only been in use for a > > week. How were you using the filesystem? Did you try using the > > online resize feature at any time? > > I assume that this isn't enough to corrupt the filesystem? > > [root@xback2 ~]# tune2fs -i -1 /dev/md0 > tune2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) > Setting interval between checks to 18446744073709465216 seconds No, but it won't do what you want, either. To disable time-based checks, you should use "tune2fs -i 0 /dev/md0". Tune2fs should have flagged an error when you specified -1; I'll have to fix that. - Ted