From 97f8c84c85d0364503849bf65eec57cc81174589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 19:15:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: clarify ext4_error message in ext4_mb_generate_buddy_error() commit 94d4c066a4ff170a2671b1a9b153febbf36796f6 upstream. We are spending a lot of time explaining to users what this error means. Let's try to improve the message to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 08ddfda..502f0fd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ void ext4_mb_generate_buddy(struct super_block *sb, if (free != grp->bb_free) { ext4_grp_locked_error(sb, group, 0, 0, - "%u clusters in bitmap, %u in gd; " - "block bitmap corrupt.", + "block bitmap and bg descriptor " + "inconsistent: %u vs %u free clusters", free, grp->bb_free); /* * If we intend to continue, we consider group descriptor -- 2.7.4