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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:18:05 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mballoc errors

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:41:22PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This report just came in on the fedora list...
> 
> EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 717:
> 23410 blocks in bitmap, 23411 in gd
> 
> EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 721:
> 19309 blocks in bitmap, 19333 in gd
> 
> has anyone else seen this problem in testing?  I guess it means
> freespace accounting got out of sync...?
> 

The bitmap or group desc is corrupt. The number of free blocks counted
via bitmap and found via desc->bg_free_blocks_count are not same. We
fall back to one calculated the bitmap.

-aneesh
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