Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:49:30 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed? |
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:55:48AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Ah, ha. I think I know what happened. > > What version of e2fsprogs were you using? If it was 1.28, that would > explain what you saw. There was a fencepost error that could corrupt > directories when it was optimizing/rehashing them. This bug was fixed > in in the next version, which was rushed out the door as a result of > this bug. Fortunately, 1.28 didn't get adopted by any distro's as far > as I know
Hmm. On a recently installed SuSE 8.1 machine:
% rpm -qf `which e2fsck` e2fsprogs-1.28-18
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