linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] e2fsck: clear inline

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Date:	Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:37:45 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] e2fsck: clear inline_data inode flag if EA
 missing

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:44:48PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If i_size indicates that an inode requires a system.data extended
> attribute to hold overflow from i_blocks but the EA cannot be found,
> offer to truncate the file.
> 
> v2: Use the raw xattr editing interface since it'll return error codes
> to us directly.  This is a side effect of modifying the library inline
> data code not to return "key error" when it can't find the system.data
> EA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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