linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ext4: check free inode count before allocaing an inode

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Message-ID: <20120924031724.GB2129@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:17:24 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] ext4: check free inode count before allocaing an
 inode

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:16:55PM +0800, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> Recnetly, I ecountered some corrupted filesystems in which some
> groups' free inode counts were 65535, it seemed that free inode
> count was overflow.  This patch teaches ext4 to check free inode
> count before allocaing an inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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