linux-ext4 - Re: A couple of ext4 crashes with inlinedata/bigalloc

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:25:50 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A couple of ext4 crashes with inlinedata/bigalloc

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:06:04PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A couple of errors to complain about before I send out the e2fsprogs patchbomb.
> :)
> 
> Zheng: I've been running the metadata checksum test with inline_data set.
> flat_dir_test is a stress test which copies /usr/share/doc into a filesystem
> and then "enlarges" the directories by recursively renaming "$foo" to
> "$foo.longer", with the results below.  e2fsck complained that the directories
> involved (4156, 4251) have multiple links to the subdir inode.  I'm not sure
> what this is all about; the only (circumstantial) evidence I have is that it
> goes away if I don't turn on inline_data.

Oh yeah -- I also noticed that when resize2fs shrinks an inline_data fs, it
doesn't rewrite the inline directory blocks with new inode numbers, which
corrupts the filesystem.  Well, that's another couple of patches for the
patchbomb.... :/

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