> The reason why it was failing seems to be that /sub/servers/exec had a > 28KB string as its translator. ext2fs limits translator sizes to the > size of a file system block. On my system it happens to be 4KB, so it's > not even possible to set that kind of translator with settrans.
It's not possible to read it either--it only ever reads one disk block. However, looking at the code in ext2fs/inode.c:diskfs_get_translator, it's clearly not robust to bogus data on the disk. > But this is still no excuse for ext2fs to crash faced with such an > inconsistency. Quite true.
