Re: 2.6.29-git: cannot mount ext4/loop

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 01:54:22 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:53:51AM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:23:28AM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> > Hi Theodore, Jens
> >
> > kernel is 2.6.29-07099-g8b53ef3
> >
> > Mount failed:
> >
> > EXT4-fs: barriers enabled
> > kjournald2 starting: pid 1867, dev loop0:8, commit interval 5 seconds
> > EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_iget: block reference 2703228928 >=
> > max (524288) in inode #2, offset=0
> > EXT4-fs: get root inode failed
> > EXT4-fs (device loop0): mount failed

I don't get this failure in a Linux 2.6 kernel based off of 5d80f8e5
with the )now upstream) ext4 patches merged in. I'm guessing sometime
between v2.6.29-3652-g5d80f8e and 2.6.29-07099-g8b53ef3 a regression
was introduced into the loop driver?

- Ted
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