Doing a forced check on an ext4 file system with inline_data and large_dir results in lots of fsck messages. To reproduce: truncate -s 100000000 ext4.img misc/mke2fs -t ext4 -I 512 -O 'inline_data,large_dir' ext4.img mkdir m sudo mount ext4.img m mkdir m/aa sudo umount m e2fsck/e2fsck -f -n ext4.img The last command gives this output: [root@localhost e2fsprogs-kernel]# e2fsck/e2fsck -f -n ext4-2.img e2fsck 1.45.2 (27-May-2019) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity '..' in /aa (12) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be / (2). Fix? no Pass 4: Checking reference counts Inode 2 ref count is 4, should be 3. Fix? no Inode 12 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix? no Pass 5: Checking group summary information ext4-2.img: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** ext4-2.img: 12/24384 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 17874/97656 blocks Rootcause of this issue is large_dir optimization that is not appropriate for inline_data. Let's not optimize it if inline_data is set. Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Artem Blagodarenko <c17828@xxxxxxxx> --- e2fsck/pass2.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/e2fsck/pass2.c b/e2fsck/pass2.c index a7d9c47d..8b40e93d 100644 --- a/e2fsck/pass2.c +++ b/e2fsck/pass2.c @@ -980,7 +980,8 @@ static int check_dir_block(ext2_filsys fs, * very large and then the files are deleted. For now, all that is * needed is to avoid e2fsck filling in these holes as part of * feature flag. */ - if (db->blk == 0 && ext2fs_has_feature_largedir(fs->super)) + if (db->blk == 0 && ext2fs_has_feature_largedir(fs->super) && + !ext2fs_has_feature_inline_data(fs->super)) return 0; if (db->blk == 0 && !inline_data_size) { -- 2.14.3