Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
Andries, The crap out is between 2.4.0-test5 and 2.4.0-test6. It takes four drives that were single partitioned and rips the first 130 blocks out and creates 4 bogus partitions. Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > If this is an unpatched vanilla 2.4.0test8 then I am surprised. > But if it is a patched version I would prefer to blame the patch. Andries, Going back to 2.4.0test5 with my patch it works perfectly. I will move this forward to 2.4.0test8, but all t

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:50:55AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: [ext2 errors and fdisk complaints on 2.4.0test8, patched?] Andre, (i) Geometry does not play any role in the functioning of Linux - it is only a matter to LILO and fdisk. So, if you meet a strange geometry, then that is surprising,

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
Linux cascade 2.4.0-test8 #1 Sat Sep 16 23:50:47 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > > > > Erm. What version it was? > > 1.18-125 (installed 1.18-125) SuSE 7.0 Professional > > If you want the srpm will send it offline. Sorry, what kernel version were you using? - To uns

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > Erm. What version it was? 1.18-125 (installed 1.18-125) SuSE 7.0 Professional If you want the srpm will send it offline. Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Alexander Viro
Erm. What version it was? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

EXT2-fs error and geometry walk ... ???

2000-09-18 Thread Andre Hedrick
Please not that all of this is the same boot. Disregard the weird device major:minor Sep 18 04:22:20 cascade kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide2(33,1)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=2, rec_len=14, name_len=1 Sep 18 04:22:20 cascade kernel: EXT2-fs