On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:35:41PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: > > I saw this problem when I was running a script which created a random > number of EAs for a file of random sizes. If you mount the image I have > given, all the EAs are displayed and they can be used/modified/deleted > without any problems so its not a bug in ext3 code. Not a bug in the ext3 code, but if a RHEL5 or SLES 10 or Debian etch user uses EA-in-Inode, with SELinux enabled, and then uses the e2fsck shipped with their distro, some of the unsorted EA's would get deleted.... right? If that's correct, then that's a pretty nasty data corruption problem (that with SELinux enabled could cause the system to become completely non-functional, further contributing to SELinux's bad reputation...) and we'll need to push your patch to the various distro's as a relatively high priority bug fix. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
