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Message-ID: <20131018203714.GB6860@birch.djwong.org> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:37:14 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com> Cc: tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] e2fsprogs patchbomb 10/2013 On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:13:43AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:48:54 -0700 > > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> > > > To: tytso@....edu, darrick.wong@...cle.com > > > Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org > > > Subject: [PATCH v2 00/25] e2fsprogs patchbomb 10/2013 > > > > I was going to review this, but could you please include the > > information what changed since the last version of each patch (into > > the patch itself) since it'll make the review much easier. > > I'm working on providing diffs against last time. :) Ok, I've sent out emails about what's changed since last time. Patches 1, 3-8, 15, 17-22, and 25 are new. Patches 2, 9, 10-11, 16, and 23-24 have changes, as noted separately. Patches 12-14 are unchanged. --D > > --D > > > > Thanks! > > -Lukas > > > > > > > > Well, here we go again. This is the same patchbomb from a couple of > > > weeks ago, minus the patches that Ted has already accepted, plus > > > several fixes to resize2fs that weren't ready back then, and a few > > > other fixes that migrated into the other patches. This series is > > > against -next. > > > > > > Ted, since you've accepted patches into -pu, do you want me to send > > > patches against -pu as well? Or put more bluntly, what are your > > > thoughts about revert-and-replace of patches in -pu? Patches 2, 6, > > > 11, 23, and 24 have changed significantly since 9/30. > > > > > > The first eight patches fix miscellaneous errors: #1 stops dirent > > > iteration after we successfully link an inode into a directory. #2 > > > fixes a bug that prohibited us from specifyinng a 64bit superblock > > > number when opening an FS. #3 prohibits running mke2fs with -E > > > resize= and meta_bg. #4 causes users of the badblocks code to reject > > > 64bit block numbers. #5 fixes shift overflows errors when punching > > > the end of non-extent files. #6 refactors all the tests for whether > > > or not we need to set the LARGE_FILE feature (because someone goofed > > > earlier). #7 fixes a problem wherein mkfs ignored non-4096 blocksize > > > directives in the config file on a device larger than 2^32KB. #8 > > > cleans up some code in debugfs. > > > > > > The next two patches fix some 64bit truncation bugs. > > > > > > Regarding next five patches, I turned on bigalloc and found a number > > > of bugs relating to the fact that block_alloc_stats2() takes a block > > > number but operates on clusters. I've fixed up all the allocation > > > errors that I found. I also decided to make the quota code use > > > ext2fs_punch rather than try to correct its behavior wrt bigalloc. > > > There was also a bug wherein the requirement that 64-bit bitmaps be > > > enabled (via EXT2_FLAG_64BITS) for bigalloc filesystems. There's also > > > a patch to reduce the e2fsck output verbosity when there are block > > > bitmap errors. Note that #11 has been refactored significantly. > > > > > > The next patch provides the ability to toggle the 64bit feature on any > > > ext4 filesystem. > > > > > > The four patches after that fix various resize2fs bugs with bigalloc. > > > > > > The next two patches fix bugs with metadata_csum. There's a patch to > > > fix up some code to test if checksums are enabled instead of a > > > GDT_CSUM open-code. Finally, there's a patch to resize2fs to rewrite > > > checksums of inodes that were relocated. > > > > > > The next two patches add the ability to edit extended attributes and > > > add a fuse2fs driver for e2fsprogs. I admit that the xattr editing > > > functions clash with the inline_data patches, though sadly, the inline > > > data patches don't provide an API to access EAs in a separate EA > > > block. The fuse driver should work with the latest versions of Linux > > > fuse (2.9.2) and osxfuse (2.6.1). I've been using the fuse driver to > > > test e2fsprogs functionality, which is how I came across most of the > > > bugs fixed above. Both of these patches (#23 and #24) have received > > > fixes since the 9/30 posting. > > > > > > The final patch adds my metadata checksum test program to the tests/ > > > directory, along with a new metadata_check target to run a quick > > > check. It includes substitute mount/umount commands for use with > > > fuse2fs. > > > > > > For fuse2fs, I think it'd be useful to reintroduce journal replay too. > > > (Or cheat and call e2fsck -E journal_only...) Also, fuse2fs doesn't > > > yet know how to read or write ACLs yet. > > > > > > I've tested these e2fsprogs changes against the -next branch as of a > > > few days ago. These days, I use a 2GB ramdisk and a 20T "disk" I > > > constructed out of dm-snapshot to test in an x64 VM. > > > > > > Comments and questions are, as always, welcome. > > > > > > --D > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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