e2fsck doesn't expect to find char, block, fifo, or socket files with the extent flag set, so clear that in ext4_mknod. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.24.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1766,6 +1766,7 @@ retry: #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4DEV_FS_XATTR inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations; #endif + EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL; err = ext4_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode); } ext4_journal_stop(handle); - 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