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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
	Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] libext2fs: use proper functions to set/clear block group flags
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 12:29:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090906162948.GI3055@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9EE55F.3030800@redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:36:31PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> As Justin & Ric reported, something like this on a
> 22T (sparse) bigfile:
> 
> 	e2fsprogs/misc/mke2fs -E lazy_itable_init=1 \
> 			      -O uninit_bg -b 4096 bigfile
> 	mount -o loop bigfile mnt/
> 	for I in `seq 1 5`; do mkdir mnt/$I; done
> 	umount mnt/
> 	e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck -f bigfile
> 
> would give us corrupted block group checksums:
> 
> 	<other problems related to uninit snipped>
> 	One or more block group descriptor checksums are invalid.  Fix<y>? yes
> 
> 	Group descriptor 6301 checksum is invalid.  FIXED.
> 	Group descriptor 7799 checksum is invalid.  FIXED.
> 
> There wer=re a few places which accessed bg_flags directly 
> rather than using the helper functions; fixing these seems
> to resolve the problem.
> 
> V2: use _flag_clear not _flags_clear, which clears all flags ...

Added to the e2fsprogs 64-bits patch set (and thus the pu branch).

      	     	       	       	     	      - Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-06 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02 20:36 [PATCH] libext2fs: use proper functions to set/clear block group flags Eric Sandeen
2009-09-02 21:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-02 21:26   ` Justin Maggard
2009-09-02 21:36 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2009-09-06 16:29   ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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