ext4 resize/fsck

[Eric Sandeen]

Curtis Doty wrote:
> 9:09pm Eric Sandeen said:
> 
>> Curtis Doty wrote:
>>> Horsing around with ext4 again...on F-10.
>>>
>>> This time a fsck was required after both an offline shrink and an online
>>> grow. Why?
>> Could you please try again with 1.41.4 from rawhide (or koji:
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/e2fsprogs/1.41.4/2.fc11/ -
>> might need to rebuild if there are any library dependency problems) and
>> see if this persists or is fixed?  Several resize fixes went into 1.41.4
>> that should take care of this.
>>
>> I'll probably push 1.41.4 to f10 testing soon, if people are hitting
>> these problems.
>>
> 
> Is this an improvement or luck? Fewer issues, but still a ghost dir.
> 
> 19:30]stratus~# lvextend -L6G foo/bar
>    Extending logical volume bar to 6.00 GB
>    Logical volume bar successfully resized
> 
> 19:31]stratus~# resize2fs -p /dev/foo/bar
> resize2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> Filesystem at /dev/foo/bar is mounted on /home; on-line resizing required
> old desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
> Performing an on-line resize of /dev/foo/bar to 1572864 (4k) blocks.
> The filesystem on /dev/foo/bar is now 1572864 blocks long.
> 
> 19:31]stratus~# umount /home
> 19:32]stratus~# fsck.ext4 -C0 -f /dev/foo/bar
> e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> Directories count wrong for group #37 (1, counted=0).
> Fix<y>? yes
> 
> bar: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> bar: 43188/153600 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 294524/1572864 blocks
> 
> ../C
> 

I hope it's an improvement ;)

If you can reproduce it, you might capture an e2image of the fs prior to
resize, and we could probably investigate the issue pretty easily...

-Eric