linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 09/18] e2fsck: insert a missing dirent tail for checksums if possible

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Message-ID: <20140726211356.GR6725@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:13:56 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/18] e2fsck: insert a missing dirent tail for checksums
 if possible

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:34:35PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If e2fsck is writing a block of directory entries to disk, it should
> adjust the dirents to add the dirent tail if one is missing.  It's not
> a big deal if there's no space to do this since rehash (pass 3A) will
> reconstruct directories for us.  However, we may as well avoid
> unnecessary work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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