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Message-ID: <20140803024653.GH24826@thunk.org> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:46:54 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...le.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] e2fsck: offer to clear inode table blocks that are insane On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:12:34AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> > > Add a new behavior flag to the inode scan functions; when specified, > this flag will do some simple sanity checking of entire inode table > blocks. If all the checksums are ok, we can skip checksum > verification on individual inodes later on. If more than half of the > inodes look "insane" (bad extent tree root or checksum failure) then > ext2fs_get_next_inode_full() can return a special status code > indicating that what's in the buffer is probably garbage. > > When e2fsck' inode scan encounters the 'inode is garbage' return code > it'll offer to zap the inode straightaway instead of trying to recover > anything. This replaces the previous behavior of asking to zap > anything with a checksum error (strict_csum). > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...le.com> Applied, thanks!! - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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