On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 05:29:25PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote: > > When calling e2fsck with '-E discard' option it might happen that > > valid inodes are discarded accidentally. This is because we just > > discard the part of inode table which lies past the highest used > > inode. This is terribly wrong (sorry!). > > Is this description accurate? We *do* want to discard the part of the > inode table past the highest used inode number. By definition > everything past that to the end of the bg's inode table is unsued, > right? The problem was before we were using the free inode count as I > understand things. > > - Ted > Once again with my terrible English expressions. Yes, we were using free inode count, which is wrong. Now we discard every free extent in the inode table. I'll update the description. Thanks! -Lukas -- 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
