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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:42:15 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> Cc: jon ernst <jonernst07@...il.com>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: xfstest-bld generic/018 fails due to e4defrag issue On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:56:37AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:13:49AM -0400, jon ernst wrote: > > > > Because bigalloc requires cluster-aware bitfield operations, which > > means we need EXT2_FLAG_64BITS. > > I see e2image.c creates image always with EXT2_FLAG_64BITS flag. It is > > safe to do same thing for e4defrag in my opinion. Please correct me if > > I am wrong. > > Um.... I *think* so. e4defrag is one of the less well > tested/maintained parts of e2fsprogs, as well as the kernel-side code > which supports e4defrag. I can't think of any reason why there would > be any 32-bit dependencies in the kernel side code, although someone > should probably do a quick audit of the e4defrag code to make sure > it's not using blk_t where it should be using blk64_t, or have other > 32-bit dependencies. >From a quick visual inspection and a sparse bitwise check, e4defrag looks 64bit clean. --D > > - Ted > -- > 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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