Re: [2.4] Is a negative rsect in /proc/partitions normal?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 29, 2003  17:44 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I'm running 2.4.23-rc5, and I've been running bonnie, burnMMX and burnK7 for
> the last few days on my 3 drive md raid5 array, and I noticed that my
> rsects[1] have gone negative.  I might consider this normal but /proc/stat
> (which only shows hda) doesn't show any negative numbers for the same
> stats[2]
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
> [1]
> major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
> 
>   56     0  160086528 hdi 240438349 1318355451 -414508366 16504630 101146331 1132637971 1281537580 24939164 -3 18108868 28693926
>   56     3  159694132 hdi3 240438290 1318355420 -414508552 16503120 101146229 1132637930 1281537288 24937454 0 19884967 309062
>   33     0  160086528 hde 240516418 1321486397 -388859454 40325686 90645794 1146603482 1312002136 18444936 -3 14785505 12315041
>   33     2  159790522 hde2 240516417 1321486394 -388859462 40325686 90645794 1146603482 1312002136 18444936 0 24147141 26883069
>    3     0  160086528 hda 240675036 1318323453 -412885008 27008859 110939441 1126008079 1306648420 28401642 -3 24294848 41908774
>    3     3  159694132 hda3 240467546 1317699583 -419535288 24234589 110932078 1125988609 1306423136 28337002 0 4327510 10687939

Probably just somewhere printing out %ld instead of %lu or similar.  I'm
sure a trivial patch to fix it would be accepted.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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