linux-ext4 - Re: Resize2fs corrupts ext4 fs with bigalloc [Was: Re: Release candidate for e2fsprogs 1.42.7]

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Message-ID: <20130120052744.GC9874@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:27:44 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jon Severinsson <jon@...erinsson.net>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resize2fs corrupts ext4 fs with bigalloc [Was: Re: Release
 candidate for e2fsprogs 1.42.7]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:47:16PM +0100, Jon Severinsson wrote:
> 
> In both versions resize2fs corrupts a clean ext4 fs if bigalloc is
> enabled.
> 

Thanks for the bug report.  From what I can tell, resize2fs never
worked correctly on bigalloc file systems.  The following patches seem
to fix it, but we need to do more careful testing before I'd trust
resize2fs to resize bigalloc file systems containing production data.

	     	    	     	  - Ted
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