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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:52:10 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: don't check/clone duplicate xattr blocks in fs without xattr feature On 3/9/11 3:01 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 2/9/11 12:41 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> I had an extremely corrupted customer filesystem which, after thousands >> of lines of e2fsck output, found one more problem on an immediately >> subsequent e2fsck. In short, a file had had its i_file_acl block >> cloned due to being a duplicate. That ultimately got cleared >> because the fs did not have the xattr feature, and the inode >> was subsequently removed due to invalid mode. >> >> The 2nd e2fsck pass found the cloned xattr block as in use, but >> not owned by any file, and had to fix up the block bitmaps. >> >> Simply skipping the processing of duplicate xattr blocks on a >> non-xattr filesystem seems reasonable, since they will be cleared >> later in any case. >> >> (also fix existing brace misalignment) >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> > > Ted, ping on this one? Would like to get it upstream before > pushing it to RHEL, because as we all know now, that's how > we roll at Red Hat. :) Ping again, for review and/or merge of this one, it's approaching 4 months old now... Thanks, -Eric -- 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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