On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 11:09:57PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> After a journal replay, we close and reopen the file system so that
> any changes in the superblock can get reflected in the libext2fs's
> internal data structures.  We need to save the flags passed to
> ext2fs_open() that we used when we originally opened the file system.
> 
> Otherwise we could end up triggering the following error message when
> checking a large (or bigalloc) file system after an unclean shutdown:
> 
> fsck.ext4: Filesystem too large to use legacy bitmaps while trying to re-open

I had a patch in my tree that fixed this too, so you can add:
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.w...@oracle.com>

--D

> 
> Addresses-Debian-Bug: 744953
> Cc: Андрей Василишин <a.vasilis...@kpi.ua>
> Cc: Jon Severinsson <j...@severinsson.net>
> Cc: 744...@bugs.debian.org
> ---
> 
> Distributions will almost certainly want to backport this patch, since
> it breaks running e2fsck on file system with the 64-bit or bigalloc
> feature enabled 
> 
>  e2fsck/e2fsck.h  | 1 +
>  e2fsck/journal.c | 2 +-
>  e2fsck/unix.c    | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/e2fsck/e2fsck.h b/e2fsck/e2fsck.h
> index c71a0a5..998abdc 100644
> --- a/e2fsck/e2fsck.h
> +++ b/e2fsck/e2fsck.h
> @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ struct e2fsck_struct {
>       blk64_t free_blocks;
>       ino_t   free_inodes;
>       int     mount_flags;
> +     int     openfs_flags;
>       blkid_cache blkid;      /* blkid cache */
>  
>  #ifdef HAVE_SETJMP_H
> diff --git a/e2fsck/journal.c b/e2fsck/journal.c
> index 905c0bf..9be52cd 100644
> --- a/e2fsck/journal.c
> +++ b/e2fsck/journal.c
> @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ errcode_t e2fsck_run_ext3_journal(e2fsck_t ctx)
>  
>       ext2fs_mmp_stop(ctx->fs);
>       ext2fs_free(ctx->fs);
> -     retval = ext2fs_open(ctx->filesystem_name, EXT2_FLAG_RW,
> +     retval = ext2fs_open(ctx->filesystem_name, ctx->openfs_flags,
>                            ctx->superblock, blocksize, io_ptr,
>                            &ctx->fs);
>       if (retval) {
> diff --git a/e2fsck/unix.c b/e2fsck/unix.c
> index b265c99..03848c7 100644
> --- a/e2fsck/unix.c
> +++ b/e2fsck/unix.c
> @@ -1274,6 +1274,7 @@ restart:
>                       flags &= ~EXT2_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
>       }
>  
> +     ctx->openfs_flags = flags;
>       retval = try_open_fs(ctx, flags, io_ptr, &fs);
>  
>       if (!ctx->superblock && !(ctx->options & E2F_OPT_PREEN) &&
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
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