Re: Broken e2fsck i_blocks repair

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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Justin Maggard wrote:
> I've mentioned this before on here, but I never verified whether or
> not it was actually broken.  I have done so today.  I manually
> modified the block count of a 3TB file using debugfs, then ran e2fsck
> on it.  e2fsck claimed to repair it, but would throw an error on every
> subsequent e2fsck run for the same issue.  The reason is
> inode->osd2.linux2.l_i_blocks_hi is always set to 0 if e2fsck is told
> to fix it.  This is an issue in both stable 1.41.12, and in master.
> This patch fixes it for me, but is there anything else that needs to
> get checked here?

Sorry for the delay; September has been rather busy for me.  This fix
has been checked in and pushed out to the e2fsprogs git repository.
I've taken a look and there doesn't seem to be any other places where
this mistake could have happened.

Thanks for pointing it out!

						- Ted
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