linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 12/19] e2fsck: always ask to fix an inode that fails checksum verification

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Date:	Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:55:39 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] e2fsck: always ask to fix an inode that fails
 checksum verification

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:13:00AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> 
> If an inode fails checksum verification during pass 1 and the user
> doesn't fix or clear the inode as part of the regular inode checks,
> ensure that e2fsck remembers to ask the user if he simply wants to
> correct the checksum.
> 
> We weren't capturing all the ways out of an interation of the inode
> scanning loop, which means that not all errors were caught.  Also,
> we might as well clear the 'failed csum' flag if we write the inode
> directly from the inode scanning loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted
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