Hi, sorry for not responding earlier. For some reason your bug report
got caught in a spam trap, and the relatively vague subject line meant
I didn't really notice it in the Debian bugs patch for e2fsprogs.
Apologies for that!
What you are seeing is pretty clearly a kernel bug, and not a bug in
e2fsprogs. So a few questions, if you don't mind:
1) Are you still seeing the problem with a newer kernel? What's the
latest kernel have you tried?
2) After the failure, have you tried fixing the file system using
e2fsck -f? What problems, if any, did e2fsck find?
3) Are you using selinux, or are you using extended attributes or
ACL's in your file system? (There was a bug fixed a while back that
involved races in code when both xattr's and checksums were in use.)
Many thanks,
- Ted
