linux-ext4 - Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:55:05 +0100 (BST)
From:	Jeremy Sanders <jss@....cam.ac.uk>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck.ext4: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup
 blocks...

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2009  16:53 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> One other question - do you make use of xattrs on this filesystem?
>>
>> No.
>
> If you use anything like SELinux or ACLs you would also (indirectly) be
> using xattrs.

SELinux is switched off and we haven't (knowingly) been using xattrs, but 
I remember rsync might copy copy xattrs, so perhaps they get written in 
some way...

Jeremy

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