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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>,
	Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault in e4defrag -c
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:49:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090629214959.GT3570@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A485929.7010403@rs.jp.nec.com>

On Jun 29, 2009  15:03 +0900, Akira Fujita wrote:
> >   Size: 4050385   	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> > Device: fd12h/64786d	Inode: 688755      Links: 1
> > Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   sesse)   Gid: ( 1000/   sesse)
> > Access: 2009-05-30 03:08:38.724454316 +0200
> > Modify: 2008-09-01 20:38:26.135589449 +0200
> > Change: 2008-09-01 20:38:26.135589449 +0200
> 
> File size is "4050385" but Blocks is "0"
> probably means blocks are not allocated yet or file is *corrupted*.
> Is your mp3 file available?

Well, this is a sparse file for some reason (e.g. failed mp3 p2p download).

> Anyway, with this patch, 0 blocks file is skipped,
> therefore the segmentation fault you had will not happen.

Is it possible that the code has not been tested with sparse files?
In that case, the check for size == 0 is only going to catch a single
case of problem, and not handle general sparse files.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 10:55 Segmentation fault in e4defrag -c Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-06-26  8:32 ` Kazuya Mio
2009-06-26  9:38   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2009-06-29  6:03     ` Akira Fujita
2009-06-29 21:49       ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-06-30 23:43         ` Akira Fujita

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