linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 15/18] e2fsck: clear badblocks inode when checksum fails

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:42:44 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] e2fsck: clear badblocks inode when checksum fails

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:35:12PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If the badblocks inode fails checksum verification, just clear the
> inode and move on.  If we don't do this, we can end up importing a lot
> of garbage into the badblocks list, which will then cause fsck to try
> to regenerate anything that was sitting atop the supposedly damaged
> blocks.  Given that most hardware will remap bad sectors transparently
> from ext4, the number of people this could affect adversely is pretty
> low.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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