Re: fsck: i_blocks is xxx should be yyy on ext3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 09 2006 - 01:52:30 EST


Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Today I rebooted into 2.6.16-rc2-mm1. Fsck checked a "clean" ext3 fs,
> because it was many mounts since the last time.
>
> I have seen that many times, but this time I got a lot of
> "i_blocks is xxx, should be yyy fix?"
>
> In all cases, the blocks were fixed to a lower number.

Yes, thanks. It's due to the ext3_getblocks() patches in -mm. I can't
think of any actual harm which it'll cause.

To reproduce:

mkfs
mount
dbench 32
<wait 20 seconds>
killall dbench
umount
fsck
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