Re: xfstest-bld generic/018 fails due to e4defrag issue

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:56:37AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:13:49AM -0400, jon ernst wrote:
> > 
> > Because bigalloc requires cluster-aware bitfield operations, which
> > means we need EXT2_FLAG_64BITS.
> > I see e2image.c creates image always with EXT2_FLAG_64BITS flag. It is
> > safe to do same thing for e4defrag in my opinion. Please correct me if
> > I am wrong.
> 
> Um.... I *think* so.  e4defrag is one of the less well
> tested/maintained parts of e2fsprogs, as well as the kernel-side code
> which supports e4defrag.  I can't think of any reason why there would
> be any 32-bit dependencies in the kernel side code, although someone
> should probably do a quick audit of the e4defrag code to make sure
> it's not using blk_t where it should be using blk64_t, or have other
> 32-bit dependencies.

>From a quick visual inspection and a sparse bitwise check, e4defrag looks 64bit
clean.

--D
> 
> 					- Ted
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