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Message-ID: <20100925122403.GE9597@thunk.org> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:24:03 -0400 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@...il.com> Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Broken e2fsck i_blocks repair On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Justin Maggard wrote: > I've mentioned this before on here, but I never verified whether or > not it was actually broken. I have done so today. I manually > modified the block count of a 3TB file using debugfs, then ran e2fsck > on it. e2fsck claimed to repair it, but would throw an error on every > subsequent e2fsck run for the same issue. The reason is > inode->osd2.linux2.l_i_blocks_hi is always set to 0 if e2fsck is told > to fix it. This is an issue in both stable 1.41.12, and in master. > This patch fixes it for me, but is there anything else that needs to > get checked here? Sorry for the delay; September has been rather busy for me. This fix has been checked in and pushed out to the e2fsprogs git repository. I've taken a look and there doesn't seem to be any other places where this mistake could have happened. Thanks for pointing it out! - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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