linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Protect group inode free counting with group lock.

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Date:	Mon, 28 May 2012 23:57:59 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Protect group inode free counting with group lock.

On 2012-05-28, at 8:18 PM, Tao Ma wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 06:22 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:17:34AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>>> oh, I see. Yes, we mkfs the system with the following configurations:
>>> mke2fs -O ^resize_inode,^uninit_bg,extent,meta_bg,flex_bg,ext_attr
>>> Maybe that's the reason why it has never be met by others before. ;)
>> 
>> I'm curious -- is there a specific reason you're disabling the group
>> descriptor checksum?  Or was that just something that was picked at
>> one point and you haven't changed it since?
> 
> We are just disabling the uninit_bg so as to let the block group
> initialization happen in the mkfs time. I don't know why the checksum is
> also disabled by ^uninit_bg.

The checksum is controlled by uninit_bg, because there was a need to
ensure the bg_itable_unused count and the UNINIT flags could be
trusted when doing an e2fsck.

If you don't want to do lazy inode table initialization, that is
disabled by "mke2fs -E lazy_itable_init=0".

Cheers, Andreas





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