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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:00:16 -0400 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: don't check/clone duplicate xattr blocks in fs without xattr feature On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:41:43PM -0600, 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> Applied, sorry for the delay. - 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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