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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 18:43:25 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Journal under-reservation bug on first >2G file On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:37:17PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Ok. I guess this is only an issue for ext4 - well, at least this specific > issue. Delalloc makes it much different than ext2 & ext3, which reserve quite a > lot more. Whether there's a corner case over there which breaks, I dunno... > > So it seems like the simplest test is simply: Are we RW mounted with delalloc? > And if so, update the feature. Seems simpler than mucking with "which features > are unique to ext4" I'd do "are we RW mounted with the extents feature". That way we don't need to worry about someone accidentally mounting a partition meant for Hurd using ext4, which would imply delalloc, and then causing Hurd to no longer be able to deal with the file system. That *shouldn't* happen, but if someone accidentally mounts the file system with -t ext4, but it seems safer to gate it on the existence of the extents feature. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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