From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: e2fsprogs and fast symlink
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:12:34 +0530
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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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Hi Ted,

The below test case fails x86
#ln -s sfdajsfsdsdfskjdgfkshdfkshdfkgdsjdsjdhsdfdafdsgakfasdgfsjksdsdsdfsd p 
#sync
#rm p
root@elm3b165:~# /usr/local/e2fsprogs/sbin/e2fsck  -f  /dev/sda5
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Fast symlink 12 has EXTENT_FL set.  Clear<y>? 

ie because after deleting the file we have
debugfs:  stat <12>
Inode: 12   Type: symlink    Mode:  0777   Flags: 0x80000   Generation:
25346603
User:     0   Group:     0   Size: 0
File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
Links: 0   Blockcount: 0
Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
ctime: 0x47e39ea3 -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:19 2008
atime: 0x47e39e9e -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:14 2008
mtime: 0x47e39e9a -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:10 2008
dtime: 0x47e39ea3 -- Fri Mar 21 11:40:19 2008
Size of extra inode fields: 28
Fast_link_dest: 


shouldn't e2fsprogs also look at whether the inode is in use ?

-aneesh