Re: [PATCH] ext4: recalculate s_blockfile_groups during resize2fs

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> s_blockfile_groups is used to limit allocations for non-extent
> files to block groups with block numbers less than 2^32.
> However, it's not updated when the filesystem is resized online,
> so the new groups are unavailable to non-extent files until a remount.
> 
> Fix this by updating the value in ext4_update_super() at
> resize time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

I sent out a patch about two weeks ago, which has since been accepted
into Linus's tree as commit c5c72d814cf0.  It's been marked for the
for backporting into the stable trees.

Cheers,

						- Ted

commit c5c72d814cf0f650010337c73638b25e6d14d2d4
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sun Apr 21 20:19:43 2013 -0400

    ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems
    
    Commit fb0a387dcdc restricts block allocations for indirect-mapped
    files to block groups less than s_blockfile_groups.  However, the
    online resizing code wasn't setting s_blockfile_groups, so the newly
    added block groups were not available for non-extent mapped files.
    
    Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org