linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 04/37] mke2fs: always warn if 128-byte inode and inline

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2014 13:10:00 -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 04/37] mke2fs: always warn if 128-byte inode and
 inline_data

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:27:01PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2014, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 16:12:49 -0700
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> > To: tytso@....edu, darrick.wong@...cle.com
> > Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> > Subject: [PATCH 04/37] mke2fs: always warn if 128-byte inode and inline_data
> > 
> > The combination of 128-byte inodes and inline_data is silly, since
> > there's no room in the inode table.  Unfortunately, if neither
> > mke2fs.conf nor the mkfs command line options specify an inode size,
> > the default inode size is set to 128 bytes (by libext2fs) and the
> > warning isn't printed.  Therefore, always do the check-and-warning.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  misc/mke2fs.c |   25 +++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
> > index aecd5d5..6507d0d 100644
> > --- a/misc/mke2fs.c
> > +++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
> > @@ -2282,21 +2282,22 @@ profile_error:
> >  				blocksize);
> >  			exit(1);
> >  		}
> > -		/*
> > -		 * If inode size is 128 and inline data is enabled, we need
> > -		 * to notify users that inline data will never be useful.
> > -		 */
> > -		if ((fs_param.s_feature_incompat &
> > -		     EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_INLINE_DATA) &&
> > -		    inode_size == EXT2_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE) {
> > -			com_err(program_name, 0,
> > -				_("inode size is %d, inline data is useless"),
> > -				inode_size);
> > -			exit(1);
> > -		}
> >  		fs_param.s_inode_size = inode_size;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If inode size is 128 and inline data is enabled, we need
> > +	 * to notify users that inline data will never be useful.
> > +	 */
> > +	if ((fs_param.s_feature_incompat &
> > +	     EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_INLINE_DATA) &&
> > +	    fs_param.s_inode_size == EXT2_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE) {
> > +		com_err(program_name, 0,
> > +			_("inode size is %d, inline data is useless"),
> > +			inode_size);
> 
> Oops :) copy-paste is tricky. You need to use fs_param.s_inode_size
> rather than inode_size here. Otherwise it looks good.

Will fix, thanks.

--D
> 
> Thanks!
> -Lukas
> 
> 
> > +		exit(1);
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	/* Make sure number of inodes specified will fit in 32 bits */
> >  	if (num_inodes == 0) {
> >  		unsigned long long n;
> > 
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