Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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); now that I think about it; perhaps it would be better to put this logic into ext4_new_inode, rather than setting it by default and clearing it here... that way new_inode() has all the logic about whether or not a particular type of file is in extents format. Think it's worth changing? -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