On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Walter Hofmann wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > I've investigated the file you sent me, and it was very helpful
> > indeed, thanks.  What is going on is that when a filesystem is resized
> > enough so that we need to move the inode table, we reserve both the
> > old and new locations of the inode table.  However, we aren't
> > releasing the blocks where the inode table used to be located after
> > the resize.  So this isn't a fatal error, in that it doesn't cause any
> > data loss; the next e2fsck will release the blocks.  
> 
> Great that you found this bug! It actually sounds quite harmless, so no 
> more fear for the data :-)

Yes, exactly.  I'll still want to fix it, of course.  :-)

                                                - Ted


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