On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:14:46 -0400, tytso@mit.edu said:
>> Well, that means the ext2 filesystem found ASCII data in either the
>> inode table or an indirect metatdata block.
> I don't think so.
> Look at what is printed...
> OK, I assumed Mike had converted the sector number back into a block
> number, but obviously, without his actually sending actual data, this
> may have been a bad assumption.
The ll_rw_block has already converted the raw ascii text on disk (in
block numbers) into a sector number, so the reverse transform in the
printk just restores what was in the original corrupt indirect block.
So it _does_ mean that we found text in an indirect block after all.
--Stephen
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