Re: Dealing with ext3 and sparse_super

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:58:16PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Seems fs->iofsset is calculated from superblock, so if group is parse,
> everything is fine, but if  group is no sparse, bb is good, ib is
> good, but it is not correct when checking values with fs->gd[i]. I
> think adding 'it=start+3' would do the trick:
> 
>                {
>                        bb = start;
>                        ib = start + 1;
>                        it = start + 3;
>                }
> 
> I've tested this solution and seems to work well.

What about old file systems that had this "bug"?

Cheers,
Andrew