linux-ext4 - Re: e2fsck not fixing all corruptions on the first run?

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:17:02 +0100 (CET)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e2fsck not fixing all corruptions on the first run?

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Technically, I guess you could say the on-disk format changed, but as
> I mentioned, it's going to change back to the original format.  It's
> not a big deal.  The question is for long symlinks, where the symlink
> can't fit in the 60 bytes in the i_block[] array, whether the block
> number should be encoded as a single integer as i_block[0], as it is
> under ext3, or whether it should be encoded as an extents structure.

Thanks again for the explanation (and for the fix, I shall try it soon)!

Christian.
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