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* ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()Theodore Ts'o2008-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In ext4_sync_fs, we only wait for a commit to finish if we started it, but there may be one already in progress which will not be synced. In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which are delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block device, this causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to not be moved to the inode dirty list in the second phase of fsync_super. Then, before they can be dirtied again, kjournald exits, seeing the UMOUNT flag and the dirty pages are never written to the backing block device, causing long symlink corruption and exposing new or previously freed block data to userspace. To ensure all commits are synced, we flush all journal commits now when sync_fs'ing ext4. Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
* ext4: Convert to host order before using the values.Aneesh Kumar K.V2008-11-04
| | | | | | | | Use le16_to_cpu to read the s_reserved_gdt_blocks values from super block. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abortHidehiro Kawai2008-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory (found via kmemcheck). When journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls ext4_abort() after freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort() accesses it. This patch fix it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdevLinus Torvalds2008-10-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits) [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl() [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl() [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close() [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put() [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones [PATCH] switch sr [PATCH] switch sd [PATCH] switch ide-scsi [PATCH] switch tape_block [PATCH] switch dcssblk [PATCH] switch dasd [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs [PATCH] switch mmc ...
| * [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()Al Viro2008-10-21
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | [PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()Al Viro2008-10-23
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flagTheodore Ts'o2008-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | If the HUGE_FILE feature flag is not set, don't allow the creation of large files, instead of automatically enabling the feature flag. Recent versions of mke2fs will set the HUGE_FILE flag automatically anyway for ext4 filesystems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Remove unused mount options: nomballoc, mballoc, nocheckTheodore Ts'o2008-10-17
| | | | | | | These mount options don't actually do anything any more, so remove them. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Add missing newlines to printk messagesEric Sesterhenn2008-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are some newlines missing in ext4_check_descriptors, which cause the printk level to be printed out when the next printk call is made: [ 778.847265] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 1509949442)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted! [ 802.646630] EXT4-fs: ext4_check_descriptors: Inode bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 9043971)!<3>EXT4-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recoveryAneesh Kumar K.V2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | During filesystem recovery we may be doing a truncate which expects some of the mballoc data structures to be initialized. So do ext4_mb_init before recovery. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* vfs: Use const for kernel parser tableSteven Whitehouse2008-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble. This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm since then. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext4: fix build failure without procfsAlexander Beregalov2008-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | fs/ext4/super.c: In function 'ext4_fill_super': fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: 'ext4_ui_proc_fops' undeclared (first use in this function) fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once fs/ext4/super.c:2226: error: for each function it appears in.) Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: add an option to control error handling on file dataHidehiro Kawai2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently. Because most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't notice the IO error. It's scary for mission critical systems. On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable. So this patch introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data. If you mount an ext4 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data write error. If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just call printk(). data_err=ignore is the default. Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374 Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: add checks for errors from jbd2Hidehiro Kawai2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the journal has aborted due to a checkpointing failure, we have to keep the contents of the journal space. Otherwise, the filesystem will lose uncheckpointed metadata completely and become inconsistent. To avoid this, we need to keep needs_recovery flag if checkpoint has failed. With this patch, ext4_put_super() detects a checkpointing failure from the return value of journal_destroy(), then it invokes ext4_abort() to make the filesystem read only and keep needs_recovery flag. Errors from jbd2_journal_flush() are also handled by this patch in some places. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4Theodore Ts'o2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS flag. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super()Andi Kleen2008-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | While reading code I noticed that ext4_put_super() dirties the superblock bh twice. It is always done in ext4_commit_super() too. Remove the redundant dirty operation. Should be a nop semantically. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtapTheodore Ts'o2008-10-05
| | | | | | | This debugging markers are designed to debug problems such as the random filesystem latency problems reported by Arjan. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Remove old legacy block allocatorTheodore Ts'o2008-10-10
| | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode tableTheodore Ts'o2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as reading a 4k block. So request readahead for adjacent inode table blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories (especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case. With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is reduced by 21%. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functionsTheodore Ts'o2008-09-23
| | | | | | | | | Previously mballoc created a separate set of functions for each proc file. This combines the tunables into a single set of functions which gets used for all of the per-superblock proc files, saving approximately 2k of compiled object code. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.cTheodore Ts'o2008-09-23
| | | | | | | ...and into the core setup/teardown code in fs/ext4/super.c so that other parts of ext4 can define tuning parameters. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblockTheodore Ts'o2008-10-06
| | | | | | This fixes some very common warnings reported by kerneloops.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: add missing unlock in ext4_check_descriptors() on error pathLi Zefan2008-09-08
| | | | | | | | | If there group descriptors are corrupted we need unlock the block group lock before returning from the function; else we will oops when freeing a spinlock which is still being held. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* jbd2: clean up how the journal device name is printedTheodore Ts'o2008-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Calculate the journal device name once and stash it away in the journal_s structure. This avoids needing to call bdevname() everywhere and reduces stack usage by not needing to allocate an on-stack buffer. In addition, we eliminate the '/' that can appear in device names (e.g. "cciss/c0d0p9" --- see kernel bugzilla #11321) that can cause problems when creating proc directory names, and include the inode number to support ocfs2 which creates multiple journals with different inode numbers. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* Update flex_bg free blocks and free inodes counters when resizing.Frederic Bohe2008-09-08
| | | | | | | | This fixes a bug which prevented the newly created inodes after a resize from being used on filesystems with flex_bg. Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting.Aneesh Kumar K.V2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds dirty block accounting using percpu_counters. Delayed allocation block reservation is now done by updating dirty block counter. In a later patch we switch to non delalloc mode if the filesystem free blocks is greater than 150% of total filesystem dirty blocks Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errorsTheodore Ts'o2008-09-08
| | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Fix long long checkpatch warningsTheodore Ts'o2008-09-08
| | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warningsTheodore Ts'o2008-09-08
| | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Initialize writeback_index to 0 when allocating a new inodeAneesh Kumar K.V2008-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | The write_cache_pages() function uses the mapping->writeback_index as the starting index to write out when range_cyclic is set. Properly initialize writeback_index so that we start the writeout at index 0. This was found when debugging the small file fragmentation on ext4. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-08-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: remove write-only variables from ext4_ordered_write_end ext4: unexport jbd2_journal_update_superblock ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issues ext4: improve ext4_fill_flex_info() a bit ext4: Cleanup the block reservation code path ext4: don't assume extents can't cross block groups when truncating ext4: Fix lack of credits BUG() when deleting a badly fragmented inode ext4: Fix ext4_ext_journal_restart() ext4: fix ext4_da_write_begin error path jbd2: don't abort if flushing file data failed ext4: don't read inode block if the buffer has a write error ext4: Don't allow lg prealloc list to be grow large. ext4: Convert the usage of NR_CPUS to nr_cpu_ids. ext4: Improve error handling in mballoc ext4: lock block groups when initializing ext4: sync up block and inode bitmap reading functions ext4: Allow read/only mounts with corrupted block group checksums ext4: Fix data corruption when writing to prealloc area
| * ext4: Cleanup whitespace and other miscellaneous style issuesTheodore Ts'o2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
| * ext4: improve ext4_fill_flex_info() a bitLi Zefan2008-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() + memset() - improve a printk info Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
| * ext4: lock block groups when initializingEric Sandeen2008-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed when filling a 1T filesystem with 4 threads using the fs_mark benchmark: fs_mark -d /mnt/test -D 256 -n 100000 -t 4 -s 20480 -F -S 0 that I occasionally got checksum mismatch errors: EXT4-fs error (device sdb): ext4_init_inode_bitmap: Checksum bad for group 6935 etc. I'd reliably get 4-5 of them during the run. It appears that the problem is likely a race to init the bg's when the uninit_bg feature is enabled. With the patch below, which adds sb_bgl_locking around initialization, I was able to complete several runs with no errors or warnings. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
| * ext4: Allow read/only mounts with corrupted block group checksumsTheodore Ts'o2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the block group checksums are corrupted, still allow the mount to succeed, so e2fsck can have a chance to try to fix things up. Add code in the remount r/w path to make sure the block group checksums are valid before allowing the filesystem to be remounted read/write. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | [PATCH] fix races and leaks in vfs_quota_on() usersAl Viro2008-08-01
|/ | | | | | | | | | | * new helper: vfs_quota_on_path(); equivalent of vfs_quota_on() sans the pathname resolution. * callers of vfs_quota_on() that do their own pathname resolution and checks based on it are switched to vfs_quota_on_path(); that way we avoid the races. * reiserfs leaked dentry/vfsmount references on several failure exits. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan2008-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernelEric Sandeen2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've talked for a while about getting rid of any feature- setting from the kernel; this gets rid of the code which would set the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS flag on the first file write when mounted as ext4[dev]. With this patch, if the extents feature is not already set on disk, then mounting as ext4 will fall back to noextents with a warning, and if -o extents is explicitly requested, the mount will fail, also with warning. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystemAneesh Kumar K.V2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The block mapped inode format can address only blocks within 2**32. This causes a number of issues, the biggest of which is that the block allocator needs to be taught that certain inodes can not utilize block numbers > 2**32. So until this is fixed, it is simplest to fail mounting of file systems with more than 2**32 blocks if the -o noextents option is given. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Enable delalloc by default.Aneesh Kumar K.V2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable delalloc by default to ensure it gets sufficient testing and because it makes the filesystem much more efficient. Add a nodealalloc option to disable delayed allocation, and update ext4_show_options to show delayed allocation off if it is disabled. If the data=journal mount option is used, disable delayed allocation since the delalloc code doesn't support data=journal yet. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
* ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handlingMingming Cao2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch does block reservation for delayed allocation, to avoid ENOSPC later at page flush time. Blocks(data and metadata) are reserved at da_write_begin() time, the freeblocks counter is updated by then, and the number of reserved blocks is store in per inode counter. At the writepage time, the unused reserved meta blocks are returned back. At unlink/truncate time, reserved blocks are properly released. Updated fix from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> to fix the oldallocator block reservation accounting with delalloc, added lock to guard the counters and also fix the reservation for meta blocks. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Add delayed allocation support in data=writeback modeAlex Tomas2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated with fixes from Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> to unlock and release the page from page cache if the delalloc write_begin failed, and properly handle preallocated blocks. Also added a fix to clear buffer_delay in block_write_full_page() after allocating a delayed buffer. Updated with fixes from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> to update i_disksize properly and to add bmap support for delayed allocation. Updated with a fix from Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net> to avoid filesystem corruption when the filesystem is mounted with the delalloc option and blocksize < pagesize. Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2Jan Kara2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes ext4 use inode-based implementation of data=ordered mode in JBD2. It allows us to unify some data=ordered and data=writeback paths (especially writepage since we don't have to start a transaction anymore) and remove some buffer walking. Updated fix from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> to fix file system hang due to corrupt jinode values. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Set journal pointer to NULL when journal is releasedJan Kara2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | Set sbi->s_journal to NULL after we call journal_destroy(). This will be later needed because after journal_destroy() is called, ext4_clear_inode() can still be called for some inodes (e.g. root inode) and we'll need to detect there that journal doesn't exists anymore. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Fix sparse warningAneesh Kumar K.V2008-07-11
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: remove redundant code in ext4_fill_super()Li Zefan2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | The previous sb_min_blocksize() has already set the block size. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: New inode allocation for FLEX_BG meta-data groups.Jose R. Santos2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch mostly controls the way inode are allocated in order to make ialloc aware of flex_bg block group grouping. It achieves this by bypassing the Orlov allocator when block group meta-data are packed toghether through mke2fs. Since the impact on the block allocator is minimal, this patch should have little or no effect on other block allocation algorithms. By controlling the inode allocation, it can basically control where the initial search for new block begins and thus indirectly manipulate the block allocator. This allocator favors data and meta-data locality so the disk will gradually be filled from block group zero upward. This helps improve performance by reducing seek time. Since the group of inode tables within one flex_bg are treated as one giant inode table, uninitialized block groups would not need to partially initialize as many inode table as with Orlov which would help fsck time as the filesystem usage goes up. Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: Remove unused variable from ext4_show_optionsTheodore Ts'o2008-07-11
| | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* ext4: add missing unlock to an error path in ext4_quota_write()Jan Kara2008-07-04
| | | | | | | | | When write in ext4_quota_write() fails, we have to properly release i_mutex. One error path has been missing the unlock... Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext4: enable barriers by defaultEric Sandeen2008-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I can't think of any valid reason for ext4 to not use barriers when they are available; I believe this is necessary for filesystem integrity in the face of a volatile write cache on storage. An administrator who trusts that the cache is sufficiently battery- backed (and power supplies are sufficiently redundant, etc...) can always turn it back off again. SuSE has carried such a patch for ext3 for quite some time now. Also document the mount option while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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