linux-ext4 - Weird resize2fs failures when mounting ext3 as ext4

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Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:41:11 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Weird resize2fs failures when mounting ext3 as ext4

Can't remember how I stumbled on this testcase, but mounting
an ext3 filesystem with "-t ext4" and then resizing leads to trouble.

With -o nodelalloc, the newly added space isn't seen by the allocator
and we get ENOSPC for the extending writes in the script below.

Without -o nodelalloc, the writes worked but I got an umount hang.

Without -t ext4 (but letting ext4.ko handle the ext3 mount) it seems
to work fine.

Haven't looked into it much at all yet but wanted to put it out
there for posterity.

(script requires xfs_io, sorry, could be changed to dd I suppose)

-Eric

#!/bin/bash

# Initial setup to create block devices prior to test:
# /root/fallocate -l 100g fsfile
# losetup /dev/loop0 fsfile
# pvcreate /dev/loop0
# vgcreate VG /dev/loop0

COUNT=20

mkdir -p mnt
umount mnt &>/dev/null
lvremove -f /dev/VG/LV 
lvcreate -L 75G -n LV /dev/VG
mkfs.ext3 -K /dev/VG/LV 
mount -t ext4 -o nodelalloc /dev/VG/LV mnt/

for I in `seq 1 $COUNT`; do mkdir mnt/dir$I; dd if=/dev/zero of=mnt/dir$I/file$I bs=1M count=4096; done
echo "before growing:"
df mnt/

umount mnt
mount -t ext4 -o nodelalloc /dev/VG/LV mnt/

lvextend -L +5g /dev/VG/LV 

echo "growing:"
resize2fs /dev/VG/LV

echo "done growing:"
df mnt/

# This gets ENOSPC for all of them
echo "try extending files:"
for I in `seq 1 $COUNT`; do xfs_io -f -F -c "pwrite -b 60m 4g 120m" mnt/dir$I/file$I; done 
df mnt/

umount mnt

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