e2fsck can't handle bad extents w/ bad bitmaps

[Kit Westneat <kwestneat@ddn.com>]

Hello,

We ran into an issue recently where we had a filesystem that had both 
invalid bitmaps and corrupted extent nodes. The issue was that currently 
the fix for a corrupted extent requires that the bitmaps be read in:
pass1.c +2250, scan_extent_node:
             pctx->blk = extent.e_pblk;
             pctx->blk2 = extent.e_lblk;
             pctx->num = extent.e_len;
             if (fix_problem(ctx, problem, pctx)) {
 >>              e2fsck_read_bitmaps(ctx);
                 pctx->errcode =
                     ext2fs_extent_delete(ehandle, 0);

Which then fails:
e2fsck/util.c +272, e2fsck_read_bitmaps:
     if (ctx->invalid_bitmaps) {
         com_err(ctx->program_name, 0,
             _("e2fsck_read_bitmaps: illegal bitmap block(s) for %s"),

We just ended up adding a patch to ignore the bad extents, but I just 
wanted to let people know that this problem exists.

Thanks,
Kit

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Kit Westneat
L3 Lustre Support, DDN
703-659-3869