For some odd geometries*, mkfs will try to allocate inode tables off
the end of the block group and fail, rather than warning that too
many inodes have been requested.
This is because when ext2fs_initialize calculates metadata overhead,
it is only adding in group descriptor blocks and the superblock
if the *last* bg contains them - but the first bg also has all of
the various metadata bits taking up space.
We need to calculate the overhead both for the first block group and
the last block groups separately, since the two different tests need
to know what the overheads are for those two cases, which may be
different.
*for example "mke2fs -b 1024 -m 0 -g 256 -N 3745 fsfile 1024"
(Note, the test here is a little funky; the expected output is
actually a mkfs failure - but a proper failure instead of the
allocator catching the problem at the last minute)
Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #241767
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Theodore Ts'o