From: Andreas Gruenbacher We are not using the in-inode space for xattrs in reserved inodes because mkfs.ext3 doesn't initialize it properly. For those inodes, we set i_extra_isize to 0. Make sure that we also don't overwrite the i_extra_isize field when writing out the inode in that case. This is for cleanliness only, and doesn't fix an actual bug. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/ext3/inode.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~dont-write-to-the-in-inode-xattr-space-of-reserved-inodes fs/ext3/inode.c --- devel/fs/ext3/inode.c~dont-write-to-the-in-inode-xattr-space-of-reserved-inodes 2005-06-30 22:05:32.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/fs/ext3/inode.c 2005-06-30 22:05:32.000000000 -0700 @@ -2663,7 +2663,7 @@ static int ext3_do_update_inode(handle_t } else for (block = 0; block < EXT3_N_BLOCKS; block++) raw_inode->i_block[block] = ei->i_data[block]; - if (EXT3_INODE_SIZE(inode->i_sb) > EXT3_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE) + if (ei->i_extra_isize) raw_inode->i_extra_isize = cpu_to_le16(ei->i_extra_isize); BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext3_journal_dirty_metadata"); _