Re: reiserfs fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c:1287

[Tom Mortensen]

Using mkreiserfs version 3.6.19.  But file system is less than 80GB.

On 8/8/07, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In any event, something is corrupting your bitmaps and that needs to get
> tracked down. The size of the file system is important. I've been seeing
> reports of users hitting similar problems with file systems larger than
> 8 TiB. The cause is that the s_bmap_nr field in the superblock is 16
> bit, and the file system assumes it's correct. mkreiserfs < 3.6.20 will
> happily create those file systems with a value that has wrapped, while
> mkreiserfs >= 3.6.20 will zero the value out, causing a mount failure
> unless the kernel has been patched to support the full size and to
> interpret s_bmap_nr == 0 as "value has overflowed."
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