Re: 2.6.29-git: cannot mount ext4/loop

[Theodore Tso]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> When I added the block range checks, initially I was assuming that
> when EXTENTS_FL is not set, the inode->i_data *always* contains
> references to further blocks.  Ted showed me wrong and added the condition
>
> 	ISREG() || ISDIR() || ( ISLNK() && !is_fast_symlink() )
>
> before that assumption can be made.  But maybe we need some further
> restraints?

It's a endian-problem; we're missing le32_to_cpu() in that patch.
Sparc is big-endian. 

Alexander, thanks for pointing this out.  We'll have to get this fixed
and pushed to Linus ASAP.

						- Ted
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