linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 recovery, the saga of 16777215 continues

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Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:18:18 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 recovery, the saga of 16777215 continues

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 03:40:47PM +0000, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> OK, so after updating e2fsprogs and doing a bunch of hacking around, I
> was eventually able to find the inode that returns hundreds of MB of
> 16777215 in the multiply-claimed blocks pass.
> 
> Dumping it out with debugfs, the output file reached 28 GB before the
> device receiving ran out of space. I thought inodes were of defined
> size?

What do you mean by "dumping it out"?  What precise debugfs command
were you using?

stat?  dump?  something else?

						- Ted
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