linux-kernel - Re: ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with overlapped bitmaps

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Message-ID: <20201008222805.GB45658@localhost>
Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 15:28:05 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with
 overlapped bitmaps

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:25:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2020, at 1:12 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 08:57:12PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> >> I *do* think that inline_data is an under-appreciated feature that I
> >> would be happy to see some improvements with.  I don't think that small
> >> files are a niche use case, and if we can clean up the inline_data code
> >> to work with 128-byte inodes I'm not against that, even though I'm not
> >> going to use that combination of features myself.
> > 
> > I'd love to see that happen. At the time, it seemed like too large of a
> > change to block on, which is why I ended up deciding to switch to
> > 256-byte inodes.
> 
> Does that mean you are using inline_data with 256-byte inodes?

I am, yes, and it mostly works great. I've hit zero issues with it in
the filesystems I'm generating.

> That would also be good to know, since there haven't been any
> well-known users of this feature so far (AFAIK).  Since you are using
> this in a read-only manner, you won't hit the one know issue when an
> inline_data inode is extended to use an external block that may
> temporarily leave the inode in an inconsistent state.

I've run into a few other issues with it in other tools, as well. mke2fs
with inline_data generates invalid files given xattrs:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20200926102512.GA11386@localhost/T/#u

And extlinux doesn't like inline_data at all:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971002

I'll report any other issues I run into using inline_data. I agree that
it's deeply underappreciated.

- Josh