"Invalid block length" warning with small blocksize

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Fri Apr 1 17:19:21 CDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:13:55PM +0200, Pavol Gono wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am getting this warning in kernel log:
> XFS: Invalid block length (0x2000) given for buffer
> during mount, and I don't know if this can be safely ignored or not.

Yes, it can be ignored - it's just a warning that the code fell back
to using a smaller-than-optimal block size for reading the log
during recovery. I see it quite often when running xfstests on 512
byte block sіze filesystems.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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