On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:35:41PM +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
>
> I saw this problem when I was running a script which created a random
> number of EAs for a file of random sizes. If you mount the image I have
> given, all the EAs are displayed and they can be used/modified/deleted
> without any problems so its not a bug in ext3 code.
Not a bug in the ext3 code, but if a RHEL5 or SLES 10 or Debian etch
user uses EA-in-Inode, with SELinux enabled, and then uses the e2fsck
shipped with their distro, some of the unsorted EA's would get
deleted.... right?
If that's correct, then that's a pretty nasty data corruption problem
(that with SELinux enabled could cause the system to become completely
non-functional, further contributing to SELinux's bad reputation...)
and we'll need to push your patch to the various distro's as a
relatively high priority bug fix.
- Ted
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