Theodore Ts'o

I'm not seeing this failure, so I decided to take a closer look. I just tested using a test appliance built using the tip of xfstests-bld and it's not failing...

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 03:35:11PM -0800, Leah Rumancik wrote: > Looked into a missing shard and tests are failing to start at all, > it seems there are...

Fsck only tries to read (and then remap, if there are I/O errors) those sectors which contain pre-existing file system metadata blocks. We can't just skip those blocks without leaving...

The problem is that if there is a block that has become bad, and that block was part of ext4's file system metadata, there is very good chance that you...

It wouldn't be hard for resize2fs to issue the trim command. I can't speak to whether the GCP's Persistent Disk would be willing to shrink the space if and only...

Yes; but note that e2fsck/emptydir.c isn't actually used. As near as I can tell, it was a partially written source file that was never used, but was checked in about...

The oss-fuzz was originally written by a intern, and I'm really not all that familiar with how the oss-fuzz project builds the fuzzer. I added it to e2fsprogs just to...

Checksums are only used if the metadata_csum feature is enabled. So there's no real need to have some magic debugging flag to disable checksums; you could just start the file...

By the way, the recently published [2024 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report](https://explore.tidelift.com/2024-survey) noted that open source maintainers are swamped, and spend three times on security issues compared to...

We do install com_err.h in /usr/include/et/com_err.h already. This is done here[1]. The line which you referred to is the one where we create a link (either a hard link or...