Re: ext2_free_blocks (fwd)

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 23:29:21 EST


On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 tytso@MIT.EDU wrote:

>[..] Since fsck -f didn't find any problems, it was probably your
>hardware hiccuping and returning the wrong block when ext2 tried to read
>in an indirect block. [..]

The corrupted metadata block is been freed before fsck had a chance to run
and once the metadata block become an unused block all returned fine.

Andrea

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