linux-ext4 - Re: Issue with bad file system

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Message-ID: <20121119193646.GB30091@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:36:46 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	sandeen@...hat.com, dreusser@...il.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue with bad file system

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:15:05PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> 
> Oh, more enthusiastic users are *already* trying out metadata_csum
> on production file systems.  And finding lots of bugs doing so!
> 
> My latest is a file system where e2fsck can find the problem, but
> can't fix it.

Is this a file system suffering from the aftermath of the off-line
resizing with the 64-bit file system feature?  Or is this some other
unrelated problem?

Thanks,

						- Ted


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