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

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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.

Eep, how far have you got? I spent a while working on it myself earlier 
today...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
[email protected]



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