Bug 11341

Summary:	2.6.27-rc1 - ext4 e2fsck false prompting for fixing i_size of Inode
Product:	File System	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	ext4	Assignee:	fs_ext4 (fs_ext4)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	kamalesh
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.27-rc1	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	11167
Attachments:	Patch to fix e2fsck bug

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-08-14 09:08:18 UTC

Subject    : [BUG] 2.6.27-rc1 - ext4 e2fsck false prompting for fixing i_size of Inode
Submitter  : Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date       : 2008-08-13 6:56
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121861058720051&w=4

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.26.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Theodore Tso 2008-08-17 06:47:44 UTC

Created attachment 17281 [details]
Patch to fix e2fsck bug

This isn't a kernel bug, but thanks for calling it to my attention.  The fix has been checked into the e2fsprogs maint branch, and will be in e2fsprogs 1.41.1

Comment 2 Kamalesh Babulal 2008-08-17 07:27:50 UTC

Thanks,the patch from Theodore Tso fixes the e2fsck false prompting.