Subject: Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
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On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 15:15, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> Plain www.kernel.org kernels always.

Good, it's no bug then. Stephen already explained what's going on: when
a file has xattrs and you delete the file while running a kernel without
xattr support, the xattr block's refcount is not decremented. You end up
with a reference count that is one too high. This won't result in
filesystem corruption, but e2fsck will fix up the refcounts for you.
Those are the mesages you were getting.

Regards,
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Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH

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