[CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

Tue Aug 31 19:55:38 UTC 2010
Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck at gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:40:55 -0500
Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to the release notes this bug has been fixed in version 1.40:
> 
> http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.40
> E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007)
> There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to
> loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count.
> (Addresses Debian Bug: #411838)
> 
> What are the odds of this getting included in CentOS 5.6?
IMHO, quite high if you open the bug on RH bugzilla, with the patch.
Check first if such a thing hasn't already been opened.
Regards,
Laurent.
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