Re: Segmentation fault in e4defrag -c

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On Jun 29, 2009  15:03 +0900, Akira Fujita wrote:
> >   Size: 4050385   	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular file
> > Device: fd12h/64786d	Inode: 688755      Links: 1
> > Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/   sesse)   Gid: ( 1000/   sesse)
> > Access: 2009-05-30 03:08:38.724454316 +0200
> > Modify: 2008-09-01 20:38:26.135589449 +0200
> > Change: 2008-09-01 20:38:26.135589449 +0200
> 
> File size is "4050385" but Blocks is "0"
> probably means blocks are not allocated yet or file is *corrupted*.
> Is your mp3 file available?

Well, this is a sparse file for some reason (e.g. failed mp3 p2p download).

> Anyway, with this patch, 0 blocks file is skipped,
> therefore the segmentation fault you had will not happen.

Is it possible that the code has not been tested with sparse files?
In that case, the check for size == 0 is only going to catch a single
case of problem, and not handle general sparse files.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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