Re: [PATCH] 00/13 e2fsprogs-1.39 extent checking improvements

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 02, 2006  14:10 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:24 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>>> I've created an updated patchset (as discussed on the ext4 concall) with
>>> improved checking for the extents format, as well as improved checking
>>> for corrupted indirect/index blocks.  In addition, there are a bunch of
>>> cleanups to e2fsprogs that I have already submitted to Ted.
>> I was on the call, but had to step away to attend to other business...
>> Was this patchset intended to supplant or augment the 48bitext3
>> patchset? Or neither? I ask because I see things in one that aren't in
>> the other and vice versa, but the two collide in a few places. Haven't
>> yet started in on the collisions to try to resolve them, thought I'd get
>> clarification first.
> 
> This is intended only to replace the 32-bit extents support in the ext4
> e2fsprogs patchset.  No effort has been made yet to integrate the two.
> I had to fix up the extents support to resolve some customer bugs (on
> 32-bit extent-mapped filesystems), and figured the patches would at
> least be useful as a point of discussion before they can be integrated.

I'm looking at this to see what I can do about merging it up a bit, so I 
can present a patch that represents the things that Andreas has added/fixed.

-Eric


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