Bug#491076: grub-install does not work

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008, david.manye at urv.cat wrote:
[...]
> > Are you sure -29 worked but -30 didn't?  This would indicate
> > ext3_256byte_inode.diff introduced this regression.
> > 
> > Which version of e2fsprogs did you use to create that ext2fs? 
> > (and with
> > which flags)
> 
> the filesystem is created with an unsupported closed source replication 
> tool which name i prefer not to write ;-). all i can tell you now is that
> the filesystem is ext2 and that it seems clean (i can execute without 
> problems find, apt-get, etc.)   
> 
> i'm on holydays but maybe this afternoon i can make a raid into the 
> office and get some extra info... 

If you do that, I would suggest running a native e2fsck on the ext2 
filesystem (or better a copy of it), just to rule out filesystem 
corruption. 

While I'm not an expert on ext2 filesystem semantics, s_inode_size getting 
0 sounds a bit strange. Of particular interest seems to be the follow 
paragraph from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html

	Make the e2fsprogs program more robust so that they will not crash
	when opening a corrupt filesystem where s_inode_size is zero.

Which seems to suggest that the filesystem is indeed corrupt, but that
it might also be a rather common corruption?

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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