linux-ext4 - [PATCH] clear extents flag on inodes created in ext4

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:00:33 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] clear extents flag on inodes created in ext4_mknod

e2fsck doesn't expect to find char, block, fifo, or socket
files with the extent flag set, so clear that in ext4_mknod.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---

Index: linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1766,6 +1766,7 @@ retry:
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR
 		inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations;
 #endif
+		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
 		err = ext4_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
 	}
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);


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