From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:10:12 -0500 Message-ID: <49E8B7F4.6020608@redhat.com> References: <20090417115659.GB7117@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Sanders Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52718 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762118AbZDQRKR (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:10:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? > > No. The filesystem was used to store rsync snapshots of other file systems > (using the hard link feature). I had only rsynced the initial data and run a > couple of rsync backups on to it. The filesystem was created using: > > mkfs.ext4 -m0 -b 4096 -E stride=8,stripe-width=72 /dev/md0 Can you show us exactly how you're using rsync? is this with rdiff-backup or some similar tool? Thanks, -Eric