Bug#558811: linux-image-2.6.31-1-686: chattr +e on ext4 fs generates kernel WARNING and backtrace

[Pedro Bulach Gapski <pbgapski@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:39 PM, maximilian attems <max@stro.at> wrote:
> tags 558811 moreinfo
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> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, pedro bulach gapski wrote:
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>> Package: linux-2.6
>> Version: 2.6.31-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> I have followed the procedure outlined in
>> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Migrating_a_live_system_from_ext3_to_ext4_filesystem
>> to migrate the ext3 /home partition to ext4.
>>
>> The migration generated no problems and the system is up and running.
>>
>> However, upon setting the extent attribute on a file with chattr +e, the following is dmesg'd:
>
> can you reproduce that with latest 2.6.32 it has several ext4 fixes.

I have been running 2.6.32-trunk-686 for some 3 weeks now, and I have
no longer seen such problems.

>
> unstable shold have 2.6.32-6 linux-images.

It has materialized today :-) I will boot it tomorrow.

regards,

Pedro