linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Add missed ext2fs

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Message-ID: <20100705191034.GH25518@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 2010 15:10:34 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Add missed ext2fs_close

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:24:48PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Today i've accidentally overwrote first GB of 400Gb ext4 filesystem with
> zeroes :) . So journal, group descriptors, rootdir and etc was destroyed.
> Surprisingly i've able to recover some of my data after long fsck
> process. I've met only one trivial bug in initialization stage.
> See patch attached.

Thanks for catching this.  I've applied the fix to my source tree.

       	   	    	   		    - Ted
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