linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 12/28] ext4: Use i_generation in inode-related metadata checksums

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Message-Id: <E16A098F-00C8-4484-8AE2-7ED75FCFA676@dilger.ca>
Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:06:43 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
To:	djwong@...ibm.com
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>,
	Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/28] ext4: Use i_generation in inode-related metadata checksums

On 2011-10-12, at 3:28 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:52:30PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> On 2011-10-08, at 12:55 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
>>> index f18bfe3..fdf0b1e 100644
>>> --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
>>> +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
>>> @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ flags_out:
>>> 		if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
>>> 			return -EPERM;
>>> 
>>> +		if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb,
>>> +				EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM))
>>> +			return -ENOTTY;
>> 
>> This should get an ext4_warning() in the non-checksum case to warn
>> users that this ioctl is deprecated and will be removed in the
>> future unless there is a good reason to keep it.
> 
> Ok.  Maybe put it in feature_removal_schedule.txt too?  Maybe not; the
> ioctl is not being totally removed, it's merely unsupported for the
> metadata_csum case.

I understand it is not being removed entirely, but since it doesn't
work at all with the checksum-enabled case, we may as well mark it
deprecated for the non-checksum case to allow us to catch any users
(however unlikely I think it is) earlier rather than later.

Cheers, Andreas





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