linux-ext4 - Re: Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (May 7, 2007)

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Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 10:37:40 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Avantika Mathur <mathur@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (May 7, 2007)

On May 09, 2007  10:02 -0700, Avantika Mathur wrote:
> Metablock Groups:
> 
> - Mingming mentioned that in the metablock group feature, the inode 
> metadata is not moved with the rest of the metadata.  Ted will check 
> this, as he thought this had been implemented.
> 
> - Online resize does not use metablock groups, and is currently limited 
> to 2TB.
> 
> - Also need to remove sanity checks in the mount code
> 
> - Once these issues are fixed, the metablock group feature can be turned 
> on by default for ext4 filesysytems

In my recent investigation of META_BG, it appears that BOTH the kernel
and e2fsprogs do NOT handle group metadata (bitmaps, itable) outside the
group.

In the kernel ext[234]_check_descriptors() requires the bitmaps and itable
to be inside the group even though META_BG is supported for a long time.

In e2fsck/super.c check_super_block() also requires that the bitmaps and
itable be inside the group even though e2fsck has claimed META_BG for a
long time.

That means it is virtually impossible to allow the group metadata to move
under the META_BG feature.  It might be possible to predicate this change
under both 64BIT and META_BG, though this is somewhat non-standard.

Alternately, we could allow the relocation of bitmaps and itables under
BIG_BG, which is itself covers the relocation aspects and also allows
the ability to change the group size.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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