NetBSD Problem Report #28559
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Date: 5 Dec 2004 23:22:10 -0000
From: "Kevin Lahey" <kml@patheticgeek.net>
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Subject: fsck_ext2fs disagrees with Linux (fc2) fsck
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>Number: 28559
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: fsck_ext2fs disagrees with Linux (fc2) fsck
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 05 23:27:00 +0000 2004
>Originator: Kevin Lahey
>Release: NetBSD 2.99.10
>Organization:
NetBSD
>Environment:
System: NetBSD yakko 2.99.10 NetBSD 2.99.10 (YAKKO) #0: Thu Dec 2 18:28:49 PST 2004 kml@yakko:/sys/arch/i386/compile/YAKKO i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
When fsck_ext2fs runs against my ext2fs partition, it flags a number
of "INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT: inode xxxxx: (16 should be 8)"
problems. Strangely enough, when I reboot into Linux and force it
to recheck the filesystem, Linux in turn flags each of these
inodes as "(8 should be 16)".
This is on a 15GB filesystem created and used with Fedora Core 2
with up to date patches as of a couple of days ago. As you can
see, the NetBSD kernel on this system is pretty up to date,
and the userland is less than a month old.
I can provide more filesytem information on request, but it
isn't clear to me that it is germaine. While this problem is
annoying, neither NetBSD nor Linux seem to have any ongoing
problems with the filesystem after it has been cleaned.
>How-To-Repeat:
Unexpectedly power off your NetBSD system. Watch it complain
on fsck'ing the ext2 partition. Reboot into Linux, forcing
it to fsck the partition. (I found that tune2fs -c 1 was useful
for forcing checks.) Notice that Linux complains about the same
inodes as NetBSD.
I would expect (but have not checked) that this would show up
with a simple fsck on the ext2 filesystem, without needing to
screw it up by crashing the system.
>Fix:
I'm thinking that we need to tweak fsck_ext2fs, but that might
be easier said than done.
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