linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 28/25] e2fsck: ignore badblocks if it says badblocks inode is bad

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Message-ID: <20140911220951.GD17990@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:09:51 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/25] e2fsck: ignore badblocks if it says badblocks
 inode is bad

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:44:49PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If the badblocks list says that the badblocks inode is bad, it's quite
> likely that badblocks is broken.  Worse yet, if the root inode is in
> the same block as the badblocks inode (likely since they're adjacent),
> the filesystem becomes unfixable because pass3 notices the bad root
> inode and exits.
> 
> So... if we encounter this case, just kill the badblocks inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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