linux-ext4 - Re: ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode

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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:41:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4_ext_check_inode: bad header/extent in inode

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Note that because there was garbage written into the inode table,
> there was going to be data loss; there's not much that can be done
> about that.

Of course, I realize that there will be dataloss, but I assumed that fsck 
would repair the filesystem to be intact again. However, even with 
e2fsprogs-1.41.5 the I/O errors persist:

  http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.30-rc3/

Thanks,
Christian.
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whether P=NP.
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