Re: e2fsck bug? - Sparse files corrupt after "e2fsck -E bmap2extent".

[Marc Thomas <marc@dragonfly.plus.com>]

Hi Ted,

Firstly, thank-you for taking the time to look into this.

I have modified your script with a "test-case" which fails for me every
time, as I noticed there is a file created by a Linux kernel build which
exhibits the problem (arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin) I think any
kernel version 3.10.x on x86_64 ought to work. I've also included a few
extra steps which I'm doing as part of the ext3 to ext4 conversion, and
added the "-b" (binary) flag to md5sum.

Here's the script. I'm not sure if it counts as a "simple" repro! :)


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#!/bin/bash

rm -f /tmp/foo.img
mke2fs -t ext3 -Fq /tmp/foo.img 5G
mount -o loop /tmp/foo.img /mnt
dd if=/etc/motd of=/mnt/test bs=4k >& /dev/null
dd if=/etc/motd of=/mnt/test conv=notrunc seek=32 bs=4k >& /dev/null
dd if=/etc/motd of=/mnt/test2 bs=4k >& /dev/null
dd if=/etc/motd of=/mnt/test2 conv=notrunc seek=1024 bs=4k >& /dev/null
md5sum -b /mnt/test* > /mnt/MD5SUMS
lsattr /mnt/test*
( cd /mnt
xz -dc ~marc/LinuxStuff/Linux4.x/linux-4.11.1.tar.xz | tar xvf -
cd linux-4.11.1
make defconfig
time make -j 15 ) > /dev/null 2>&1
md5sum -b /mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin >>
/mnt/MD5SUMS
lsattr /mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin
umount /mnt
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /tmp/foo.img
e2fsck -fy /tmp/foo.img
e2fsck -fy -E bmap2extent /tmp/foo.img
mount -o loop /tmp/foo.img /mnt
md5sum -c /mnt/MD5SUMS
lsattr /mnt/test*
lsattr /mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin
umount /mnt
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The output of the script is:

time ./marc2.sh
------------------- /mnt/test
------------------- /mnt/test2
------------------- /mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin
tune2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/tmp/foo.img: 71184/327680 files (6.4% non-contiguous), 338237/1310720
blocks
e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 1E: Optimizing extent trees
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/tmp/foo.img: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/tmp/foo.img: 71184/327680 files (6.4% non-contiguous), 334994/1310720
blocks
/mnt/test: OK
/mnt/test2: OK
/mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
--------------e---- /mnt/test
--------------e---- /mnt/test2
--------------e---- /mnt/linux-4.11.1/arch/x86/realmode/rm/realmode.bin

real    1m46.829s
user    17m41.611s
sys     1m39.268s

Thanks & Kind Regards,
Marc