linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 06/12] e2fsck: update i_blocks accounting for ea

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2017 04:37:43 -0700
From:   Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] e2fsck: update i_blocks accounting for ea_inode feature

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> With ea_inode feature, i_blocks include the disk space used by
>> referenced xattr inodes. Make e2fsck aware of that.
>
> This makes it all the more important that the "fast symlink" checking be
> divorced from i_blocks, and instead depend on i_size.  Otherwise, we will
> have yet another bunch of problems as large xattrs on a fast symlink will
> incorrectly result in problems with the symlink.
>
Totally agree. The changes to i_blocks accounting for ea_inode feature
likely broke ext4_inode_is_fast_symlink() in kernel. I will try to fix
that first.