On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 01:15:05PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > tags 989630 +pending > thanks > > I finally had time to investigate this problem. It turns out the only > time this bug manifests is when creating an file system smaller than > (blocksize)**2 bytes (e.g., 16 megabytes when the is block size is > 4k). > > The bug was introduced almost ten years ago (September 2011), and > apparently no one noticed until you did! > > Thanks for providing a repro, BTW; I had initially tried reproducing > this with a file system size larger than 16MB, and I couldn't see the > problem. But when I used your precise reproduction instructions, I > finally figured out what was going on.
Thanks for the fix! I'm glad the precise reproducer helped.
