linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: update s_overhead_clusters in the superblock during an on-line resize

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Date:   Thu,  7 Jul 2022 23:19:56 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: update s_overhead_clusters in the superblock during an on-line resize

On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:25 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> When doing an online resize, the on-disk superblock on-disk wasn't
> updated.  This means that when the file system is unmounted and
> remounted, and the on-disk overhead value is non-zero, this would
> result in the results of statfs(2) to be incorrect.
> 
> This was partially fixed by Commits 10b01ee92df5 ("ext4: fix overhead
> calculation to account for the reserved gdt blocks"), 85d825dbf489
> ("ext4: force overhead calculation if the s_overhead_cluster makes no
> sense"), and eb7054212eac ("ext4: update the cached overhead value in
> the superblock").
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/2] ext4: update s_overhead_clusters in the superblock during an on-line resize
      commit: e781b8ce9261f353df91b94303e53c31fdf9871e
[2/2] ext4: update the s_overhead_clusters in the backup sb's when resizing
      commit: 2c8204b83ceaf439dff2d1a94a7e2d3ad7619287

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>