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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:10:14 -0500
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 08:21 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:55:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So let me see if I have this right.
> >
> > You grab Alexandre's kit from http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/
> > and a plain old `mke2fs -j' gives a filesystem which will mount as ext3 or
> > ext4.
> >
> > If you then mount this filesystem with `-t ext4dev -o extents', it becomes
> > incompatible with the ext3 driver. Yes?
>
> I agree that's the wrong behaviour, and I've always hated the idea of
> using using mount -o options to enable ext3/4 features. (When do it
> with EA's and acl's, sigh, and that's wrong too, but at least I was
> able to paper over that later by adding default mount option support
> into the superblock.)
>
> The right way to do this is to only enable a feature like extents
> after using tune2fs -O extents, or creating a filesystem with mke2fs
> -O extents.
>
> Can we change the patches to do this, please?
Something like this?
EXT4: Get rid of extents mount option
Enabling an ext4 file system to use extents should be done with
'tune2fs -O extents' or 'mke2fs -O extents', not with a mount option
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>
diff -Nurp linux-orig/fs/ext4/extents.c linux/fs/ext4/extents.c
--- linux-orig/fs/ext4/extents.c 2006-10-05 07:39:08.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/fs/ext4/extents.c 2006-10-06 15:45:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *s
* possible initialization would be here
*/
- if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) {
+ if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) {
printk("EXT4-fs: file extents enabled");
#ifdef AGRESSIVE_TEST
printk(", agressive tests");
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ void ext4_ext_init(struct super_block *s
*/
void ext4_ext_release(struct super_block *sb)
{
- if (!test_opt(sb, EXTENTS))
+ if (!EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS))
return;
#ifdef EXTENTS_STATS
diff -Nurp linux-orig/fs/ext4/ialloc.c linux/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
--- linux-orig/fs/ext4/ialloc.c 2006-10-05 07:39:08.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/fs/ext4/ialloc.c 2006-10-06 15:37:36.000000000 -0500
@@ -618,16 +618,9 @@ got:
ext4_std_error(sb, err);
goto fail_free_drop;
}
- if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) {
+ if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) {
EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, inode);
- if (!EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) {
- err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
- if (err) goto fail;
- EXT4_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS);
- BUFFER_TRACE(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh, "call ext4_journal_dirty_metadata");
- err = ext4_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh);
- }
}
ext4_debug("allocating inode %lu\n", inode->i_ino);
diff -Nurp linux-orig/fs/ext4/super.c linux/fs/ext4/super.c
--- linux-orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2006-10-05 07:39:08.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/fs/ext4/super.c 2006-10-06 15:47:47.000000000 -0500
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ enum {
Opt_usrjquota, Opt_grpjquota, Opt_offusrjquota, Opt_offgrpjquota,
Opt_jqfmt_vfsold, Opt_jqfmt_vfsv0, Opt_quota, Opt_noquota,
Opt_ignore, Opt_barrier, Opt_err, Opt_resize, Opt_usrquota,
- Opt_grpquota, Opt_extents,
+ Opt_grpquota,
};
static match_table_t tokens = {
@@ -778,7 +778,6 @@ static match_table_t tokens = {
{Opt_quota, "quota"},
{Opt_usrquota, "usrquota"},
{Opt_barrier, "barrier=%u"},
- {Opt_extents, "extents"},
{Opt_err, NULL},
{Opt_resize, "resize"},
};
@@ -1111,9 +1110,6 @@ clear_qf_name:
case Opt_bh:
clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH);
break;
- case Opt_extents:
- set_opt (sbi->s_mount_opt, EXTENTS);
- break;
default:
printk (KERN_ERR
"EXT4-fs: Unrecognized mount option \"%s\" "
Shaggy
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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