dumpe2fs and external journal: Illegal inode number while reading journal inode

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 18:08:17 UTC 2009


Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I created an ext4 fs with an external journal.
> I wanted to check how big the journal was, and tried:
> 
> # dumpe2fs -h /dev/mapper/volg1-logv1
> dumpe2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
...
> dumpe2fs: Illegal inode number while reading journal inode
> 

this should be fixed by:


commit a11d0746b4fb2ac41dcb5e7acf31942b1e8925e2
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Nov 15 15:05:51 2008 -0500

    dumpe2fs: Only print inline journal information if the journal is
internal

    Currently dumpe2fs displays an error if run on a filesystem with an
    external journal.

    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>

in e2fsprogs-1.41.4

-Eric




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