On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +0000, James Broadhead wrote > So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I > have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it. > This leads me to suspect that it's either an ext4 bug or the situation > that you mentioned above. > > Both are Western Digital 2TB disks; > 1058:1130 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. > 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB
Could these disks be slightly larger than 2 TB? If you you use "make menuconfig", the setting is... -*- Enable the block layer ---> [*] Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files If you edit .config manually, set... CONFIG_LBDAF=y -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>