Eric Sandeen wrote: > So this trips up on things like sockets, fifos, and block & char nodes. Just to demonstrate; doing this on ext4: mknod mnt/block b 1 1 mknod mnt/char c 1 1 mknod mnt/fifo p mksock mnt/sock mkdir -p mnt/verylongdir12345678901234567890/verylongdir12345678901234567890/verylongdir12345678901234567890 ln -s mnt/verylongdir12345678901234567890/verylongdir12345678901234567890/verylongdir12345678901234567890 mnt/longlink yields an unhappy fsck w/ e2fsprogs-interim: e2fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 12 has EXTENT_FL set, but is not in extents format Fix? no Inode 13 has EXTENT_FL set, but is not in extents format Fix? no Inode 14 has EXTENT_FL set, but is not in extents format Fix? no Inode 15 has EXTENT_FL set, but is not in extents format Fix? no Inode 17 has EXTENT_FL set, but is not in extents format Fix? no Pass 2: Checking directory structure Inode 12 (/block) is an illegal block device. Clear? no Inode 13 (/char) is an illegal character device. Clear? no Inode 14 (/fifo) is an illegal FIFO. Clear? no Inode 15 (/sock) is an illegal socket. Clear? no Symlink /longlink (inode #17) is invalid. Clear? no Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information -Eric - 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
