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    [PATCH] ext2: clear ext3 htree flag on directories · dac80052
    Andrew Morton authored
    Forward port of a change which Ted made to 2.4's ext2.
    
    HTREE backwards compatibility patch.
    
    "I thought (and assumed) this patch had been applied to both the ext2 and
     ext3 filesystems in the 2.4 kernel.  It turns out it had only made it into
     the ext3 filesystem code.  This means that if an HTREE-enabled filesystem is
     mounted using ext2, it will corrupt the filesystem as far as e2fsck and an
     ext3 htree-enabled kernel is concerned.  (The corruption won't cause any
     data loss, but it will cause e2fsck and an ext3-htree kernel to omit a lot
     of warning messages.)"
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