linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 11/37] libext2fs: Create the inode bitmap checksum

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:02:59 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Coly Li <colyli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/37] libext2fs: Create the inode bitmap checksum

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 05:36:22PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h b/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
> index 1f08673..367bfdf 100644
> --- a/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
> @@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ struct ext4_group_desc
>  	__u16	bg_free_inodes_count_hi;/* Free inodes count MSB */
>  	__u16	bg_used_dirs_count_hi;	/* Directories count MSB */
>  	__u16	bg_itable_unused_hi;	/* Unused inodes count MSB */
> -	__u32	bg_reserved2[3];
> +	__u32	bg_inode_bitmap_csum;	/* crc32c(uuid+group+ibitmap) */
> +	__u32	bg_reserved2[2];
>  };

One of the reasons why I like to coalesce the patches to the data
structures into their own separate commit, is it's hard when I'm
reviewing individual patches in a mail reader what's going on from a
big picture spective.  (Heck, even just *finding* the patches that
modify the on-disk format is hard....)

But as near as I can tell, your patch series only uses one of the
32-bit fields in bg_reserved.  Is there a good reason why
bg_inode_bitmap_csum can't also used one of the two fields in
bg_reserved?  That way we get two 32-bit checksums for both struct
ext2_group_desc and struct ext4_group_desc.  Is there a third 32-bit
per-block group checksum I'm forgetting about? 

	  		     		       - Ted
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