Eric Sandeen wrote:
Is this going to be seen fixed in F9? And yes, this can be deadly to your data. I have seen it trash a file system. I am going to have to back up /home and /etc and re-ext4 the drive.So, in the course of other things, I found a way to reproduce this error. And, just for mailing-list-posterity, it seems to be fixed, upstream, with: commit 0bf7e8379ce7e0159a2a6bd3d937f2f6ada79799 Author: Jose R. Santos <jrs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 3 14:07:29 2008 -0400 ext4: Fix uninit block group initialization with FLEX_BG With FLEX_BG block bitmaps, inode bitmaps and inode tables _MAY_ be allocated outside the group. So, when initializing an uninitialized block bitmap, we need to check the location of this blocks before setting the corresponding bits in the block bitmap of the newly initialized group. Also return the right number of free blocks when counting the available free blocks in uninit group. Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> which made it to the 2.6.26 kernels. the description sounds innocuous but in my case it was actually corrupting memory ... -Eric
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