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Subject: Re: fsck: i_blocks is xxx should be yyy on ext3
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Mingming Cao wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  
>
>>Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>> Today I rebooted into 2.6.16-rc2-mm1.  Fsck checked a "clean" ext3 fs,
>>> because it was many mounts since the last time.
>>>
>>> I have seen that many times, but this time I got a lot of
>>> "i_blocks is xxx, should be yyy fix?"
>>>
>>> In all cases, the blocks were fixed to a lower number.
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, thanks.  It's due to the ext3_getblocks() patches in -mm.  I can't
>>think of any actual harm which it'll cause.
>>
>>To reproduce:
>>
>>mkfs
>>mount
>>dbench 32
>><wait 20 seconds>
>>killall dbench
>>umount
>>fsck
>>-
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry about the late response.  I failed to reproduce the problem with
>above instructions. I am running 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 kernel, played dbench
>32 ,64 and 128, and tried both 8 cpu and 1 cpu, still no luck at last. I
>am using e2fsck version 1.35 though. What versions you are using?
>  
>
single cpu, e2fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005)
        Using EXT2FS Library version 1.39-WIP, 31-Dec-2005

I didn't use dbench, only normal use of the machine.

Helge Hafting