Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: allocate inode table wholly within group

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On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 11:53:16AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> There seems to be something wrong here.  The test file system was
> created like this:
> 
>   mke2fs -t ext2 -O ^resize_inode -b 1024 -g 1024 -qF /tmp/foo.img 64M
> 
> The file system hence should have 64 block groups, and dumpe2fs before
> the resize looks like this on an x86 system:
> 
> Group 1: (Blocks 1025-2048)
>   Backup superblock at 1025, Group descriptors at 1026-1027
>   Block bitmap at 1028 (+3), Inode bitmap at 1029 (+4)
>   Inode table at 1030-1061 (+5)
> 
> ... and after:
> 
> Group 1: (Blocks 1025-2048)
>   Backup superblock at 1025, Group descriptors at 1026-1089
>   Block bitmap at 1090 (+65), Inode bitmap at 1091 (+66)
>   Inode table at 1092-1123 (+67)
> 
> Note the range of block group #1: 1025-2048, whereas on the PPC,
> apparently the range is quite different: Group 1: (Blocks 1025-1110)
> 
> So there's something else going really wrong here....

I just tried building e2fsprogs 1.42.8 on a powerpc system in a Debian
unstable (sid) chroot, and I'm not able to reproduce this test
failure.  I tried building using both gcc 4.6.4 and gcc 4.8, in case
it was a compiler bug.

So again, there's something really, REALLY wrong....

							- Ted
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