On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:22:33PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > The kernel[1] and e2fsck[2] both react to a BLOCK_UNINIT group by > calculating the block bitmap that's needed to show all the group > blocks for that group (if any) and using that. However, when reading > bitmaps from disk, libext2fs simply imports a block of zeroes into the > bitmap, without bothering to check for group blocks. This erroneous > behavior results in the filesystem having a block bitmap that does not > accurately reflect disk contents, and worse yet makes it seem as > though superblocks, group descriptors, bitmaps, and inode tables are > "free" space on disk. > > So, fix the block bitmap loading routines to calculate the correct > block bitmap for all groups and load it into the main fs block bitmap.... Thanks, applied. - Ted -- 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
