On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 05:12:34PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Hi Ted, > > The below test case fails x86 > #ln -s sfdajsfsdsdfskjdgfkshdfkshdfkgdsjdsjdhsdfdafdsgakfasdgfsjksdsdsdfsd p > #sync > #rm p > root@elm3b165:~# /usr/local/e2fsprogs/sbin/e2fsck -f /dev/sda5 > e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Fast symlink 12 has EXTENT_FL set. Clear<y>? > > ie because after deleting the file we have > debugfs: stat <12> > Inode: 12 Type: symlink Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: > 25346603 > User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 0 > File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 > Links: 0 Blockcount: 0 > Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 > ctime: 0x47e39ea3 -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:19 2008 > atime: 0x47e39e9e -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:14 2008 > mtime: 0x47e39e9a -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:10 2008 > dtime: 0x47e39ea3 -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:19 2008 > Size of extra inode fields: 28 > Fast_link_dest: > > > shouldn't e2fsprogs also look at whether the inode is in use ? Or something like this in kernel ? diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 50d700f..cc124b1 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -204,6 +204,14 @@ void ext4_delete_inode (struct inode * inode) inode->i_size = 0; if (inode->i_blocks) ext4_truncate(inode); + + /* + * In case of link clear the extent flag. Fast symlinks are not + * stored in extent format we use i_blocks count to determine + * whether it is fast link or not. + */ + if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) + EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL; /* * Kill off the orphan record which ext4_truncate created. * AKPM: I think this can be inside the above `if'. -- 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