linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 01:07:52 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Offsets of EAs in inode need not be sorted

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:35:36PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> This patch removes a code snippet from check_ea_in_inode() in pass1
> which checks if the EA values in the inode are sorted or not. The
> comments in fs/ext*/xattr.c state that the EA values in the external
> EA block are sorted but those in the inode need not be sorted. I
> have also attached a test image which has unsorted EAs in the
> inodes. The current e2fsck wrongly clears the EAs in the inode.

Applied.

					- Ted
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