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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Commit c1a1e7fc24d6 causes segfault in ext2fs_new_inode
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:57:59 -0700
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> A bit of further investigation:
> 
> I'm currently not passing EXT2_FLAG_64BITS when opening the
> filesystem.  Passing this flag fixes the issue, so I'm going to do
> that (are there any downsides?)

No, there are no downsides with passing in EXT2_FLAG_64BITS (and it's
actually a good idea in case Fedora ever supports booting on ext4 file
systems with block numbers > 32 bits).  Still, it should have worked.

I'll chain the patches which should fix this to this message.

     	       	       	     	    	- Ted