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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mark de Vries <mark@asphyx.net>
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Subject: Re: buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:430
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Mark de Vries <mark@asphyx.net> wrote:
>
> Mar 15 18:10:14 article kernel: buffer layer error at fs/buffer.c:430
> ...
>  Mar 15 18:10:14 article kernel: block=8192, b_blocknr=18446744073709551615
>  Mar 15 18:10:14 article kernel: b_state=0x00000000, b_size=1024

This is an infuriating thing.  Do you actually have any 1k blocksize
filesystems in that machine?

You can use

	dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda1 | grep 'Block size'

to tell.