linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 09/10] e2fsck: set dir_nlink feature if large dir exists

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Date:   Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:21:07 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] e2fsck: set dir_nlink feature if large dir exists

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:26:05PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> If there is a directory with more than EXT2_LINK_MAX (65000)
> subdirectories, but the DIR_NLINK feature is not set in the
> superblock, the feature should be set before continuing on
> to change the on-disk directory link count to 1.
> 
> While most filesystems should have DIR_NLINK set (it was set
> by default for all ext4 filesystems, and all kernels between
> 2.6.23 and 4.12 automatically set it if the directory link
> count grew too large), it is possible that this flag is lost
> due to disk corruption or for an upgraded filesystem.  We no
> longer want kernels to automatically enable features.
> 
> Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196405
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted