On May 5, 2013, at 10:06 PM, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:06:56PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> s_blockfile_groups is used to limit allocations for non-extent >> files to block groups with block numbers less than 2^32. >> However, it's not updated when the filesystem is resized online, >> so the new groups are unavailable to non-extent files until a remount. >> >> Fix this by updating the value in ext4_update_super() at >> resize time. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I sent out a patch about two weeks ago, which has since been accepted > into Linus's tree as commit c5c72d814cf0. It's been marked for the > for backporting into the stable trees. > Argh, so you did! One demerit for me for forgetting, and another for patching an old tree.... Thanks, Eric > Cheers, > > - Ted > > commit c5c72d814cf0f650010337c73638b25e6d14d2d4 > Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Apr 21 20:19:43 2013 -0400 > > ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems > > Commit fb0a387dcdc restricts block allocations for indirect-mapped > files to block groups less than s_blockfile_groups. However, the > online resizing code wasn't setting s_blockfile_groups, so the newly > added block groups were not available for non-extent mapped files. > > Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
