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by umanwizard 842 days ago
0x10000 in the mentioned bitfield is EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_ORPHAN_PRESENT which is documented here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/or...

If I’m understanding this correctly, probably the only effect of having accidentally turned this off is leaking some blocks.