From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] ext3: set i_extra_isize of 11th inode
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:21:17 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:55:49PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> I think you are missing the point.  I don't think it matters which
> mke2fs is in use.  The problem is that ext3_iget() has a workaround
> for this 5-year-old mke2fs bug that is actively causing a loss of
> xattr data if lost+found is reallocated.

Ah, OK.  But it's still the case that the right answer at this point
is to make ext3 code conform to ext4, and drop the workaround
altogether.

						- Ted