Re: symlink has wrong sd_blocks count

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 06:42, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:53:25AM +0000, Nick Burrett wrote:
> 
> > I'm running a stock 2.4.20 kernel with the reiserfs quota patches applied.
> > Simply creating a symlink and then running reiserfsck shows errors like 
> > this:
> >    /foofile 2 4 has wrong sd_blocks 8, has to be 1
> > I've reproduced this 100% on 100 filesystems on two servers.
> 
> Aha, I see.
> Ignore this message for now for directories and symlinks.
> This is because when reiserfs calculates number of blocks file would use,
> in case of no quota, reiserfs code does this and can do this precisely
> (up to 512 bytes), but with quota patches applied, quota code takes
> account of blocks used. And it round everything up to blocksize, hence
> the difference. And reiserfsck uses only 1st variant of the code.
> I am not yet sure on how to deal with the issue.
> Just ignore this message for now.

The quota code can have special checks for symlinks, but the sd_block
accounting is somewhat complex, and I've been hesitant to make it even
more so with the symlink checks.

-chris