Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-08-30 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:31:39PM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > Hi, I see the debian bug is still open, was there any progress? I did download it, but it was too big for me to deal with on my laptop, and I've been travelling a huge amount in the past month. I haven't forgotten about it, and

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-08-30 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:19:18PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > Anyway, back to the bug report: running e2fsck without -n fixes the htrees > > for two directories, and a repeated e2fsck finds no errors. Accessing the > > directo

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:12:00PM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > But, bzip2 is used like > > bzip2 -d foo.tar.bz2 > tar xfS foo.tar > > ... and foo.tar is only 500MB, not 200GB. Compare, if you wish: Hmm, last time I checked bzip2 -d didn't create sparse files when decompressing (that's why

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-17 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:45:30AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:09:29AM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > tar xfSj theres-a-sparse-file-in-this-archive.tar.bz2 > > > > will just uncompress the archive (about .5GB), and tar will seek over the > > holes when creating the

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 04:09:29AM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > tar xfSj theres-a-sparse-file-in-this-archive.tar.bz2 > > will just uncompress the archive (about .5GB), and tar will seek over the > holes when creating the file. mmm, yes, I had forgotten about the -S option. However, tar is s

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
Quoting Theodore Tso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:01:55AM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > > Can you send me an raw e2image dump of the filesystem? > > > > Will do when it finishes. bzip2 of 200GB seems to be really slow, even if > > it's mostly zeroes. I suppose you would

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:01:55AM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > Can you send me an raw e2image dump of the filesystem? > > Will do when it finishes. bzip2 of 200GB seems to be really slow, even if > it's mostly zeroes. I suppose you wouldn't mind if I sent a tar.bz2 with > the image? A ta

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
Quoting Theodore Tso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:03:12PM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > > Package: e2fsprogs > > Version: 1.39-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Hi, e2fsck segfaults when checking an ext3 fs. > > Can you send me an raw e2image dump of the filesystem? Will

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:03:12PM +0200, Zoran Dzelajlija wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.39-1 > Severity: important > > Hi, e2fsck segfaults when checking an ext3 fs. Can you send me an raw e2image dump of the filesystem? >From the e2image man page: Raw image files are sometim

Bug#378263: e2fsprogs: segfaults on a corrupted ext3

2006-07-14 Thread Zoran Dzelajlija
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.39-1 Severity: important Hi, e2fsck segfaults when checking an ext3 fs. I suspect the corruption was due to my writing to the ext3 from Windows XP using the driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/ which does not appear to support -O dir_index (but happily tries to writ