linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: do not initialize block bitmaps of groups having super block

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:55:46 +0800
From:	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	"tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: do not initialize block bitmaps of groups having
 super block

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> wrote:
> On 2011-11-09, at 3:53 AM, Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Now mke2fs initializes block bitmaps of groups having super block, on
>> the other hand ext4_init_block_bitmap in kernel can handle this case
>> rightly.  So let mke2fs let block bitmaps of groups having super block
>> be uninitialized.
>
> Is that true of older kernels, or only newer ones?  What about filesystems with META_BG set?
According to code of kernel 2.6.24 in which uninit_bg was introduced
in, kernel can handle the case and META_BG can also be handled
rightly.  But it was not tested.  I will do a test later.

Yongqiang.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
>> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>
>> ---
>> lib/ext2fs/alloc_sb.c |    2 --
>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/alloc_sb.c b/lib/ext2fs/alloc_sb.c
>> index 0d1c000..7517fbc 100644
>> --- a/lib/ext2fs/alloc_sb.c
>> +++ b/lib/ext2fs/alloc_sb.c
>> @@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ int ext2fs_reserve_super_and_bgd(ext2_filsys fs,
>>        ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap2(bmap, 0);
>>
>>    if (old_desc_blk) {
>> -        if (fs->super->s_reserved_gdt_blocks && fs->block_map == bmap)
>> -            ext2fs_bg_flags_clear(fs, group, EXT2_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT);
>>        for (j=0; j < old_desc_blocks; j++)
>>            if (old_desc_blk + j < ext2fs_blocks_count(fs->super))
>>                ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap2(bmap,
>> --
>> 1.7.5.1
>>
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Yongqiang Yang
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