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Ross Zwisler
923ae0ff92 ext4: add DAX functionality
This is a port of the DAX functionality found in the current version of
ext2.

[matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com: heavily tweaked]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remap_pages went away]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-16 17:56:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2e515bf096 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
 "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
  documentation updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
  doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
  treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
  Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
  Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
  mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
  power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
  doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
  Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
  doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
  treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
  zram: doc fixes
  Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
  doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
  PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
  doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
  scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
  ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
  treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
  page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
  doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
  ...
2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
ad4eec6135 ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.

The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.

Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...

and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:

# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0 
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1

Change the journal device number:

# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile 

And today it will fail:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal

But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):

# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device:	          0x0701

But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:

# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#

So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
2013-08-28 19:05:07 -04:00
Masanari Iida
c9f3f2d8b3 doc: Fix typo in doucmentations
Correct typo (double words) in documentations.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-07-25 12:34:15 +02:00
Lukas Czerner
27dd438542 ext4: introduce reserved space
Currently in ENOSPC condition when writing into unwritten space, or
punching a hole, we might need to split the extent and grow extent tree.
However since we can not allocate any new metadata blocks we'll have to
zero out unwritten part of extent or punched out part of extent, or in
the worst case return ENOSPC even though use actually does not allocate
any space.

Also in delalloc path we do reserve metadata and data blocks for the
time we're going to write out, however metadata block reservation is
very tricky especially since we expect that logical connectivity implies
physical connectivity, however that might not be the case and hence we
might end up allocating more metadata blocks than previously reserved.
So in future, metadata reservation checks should be removed since we can
not assure that we do not under reserve.

And this is where reserved space comes into the picture. When mounting
the file system we slice off a little bit of the file system space (2%
or 4096 clusters, whichever is smaller) which can be then used for the
cases mentioned above to prevent costly zeroout, or unexpected ENOSPC.

The number of reserved clusters can be set via sysfs, however it can
never be bigger than number of free clusters in the file system.

Note that this patch fixes the failure of xfstest 274 as expected.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
2013-04-09 22:11:22 -04:00
Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
393d1d1d76 ext4: implementation of a new ioctl called EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
Add a new ioctl, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which swaps i_blocks and
associated attributes (like i_blocks, i_size, i_flags, ...) from the
specified inode with inode EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO (#5). This is
typically used to store a boot loader in a secure part of the
filesystem, where it can't be changed by a normal user by accident.
The data blocks of the previous boot loader will be associated with
the given inode.

This usercode program is a simple example of the usage:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int fd;
  int err;

  if ( argc != 2 ) {
    printf("usage: ext4-swap-boot-inode FILE-TO-SWAP\n");
    exit(1);
  }

  fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY);
  if ( fd < 0 ) {
    perror("open");
    exit(1);
  }

  err = ioctl(fd, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT);
  if ( err < 0 ) {
    perror("ioctl");
    exit(1);
  }

  close(fd);
  exit(0);
}

[ Modified by Theodore Ts'o to fix a number of bugs in the original code.]

Signed-off-by: Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <t.bubeck@reinform.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-04-08 12:54:05 -04:00
Tao Ma
939da10844 ext4: Remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR
Ted has sent out a RFC about removing this feature. Eric and Jan
confirmed that both RedHat and SUSE enable this feature in all their
product.  David also said that "As far as I know, it's enabled in all
Android kernels that use ext4."  So it seems OK for us.

And what's more, as inline data depends its implementation on xattr,
and to be frank, I don't run any test again inline data enabled while
xattr disabled.  So I think we should add inline data and remove this
config option in the same release.

[ The savings if you disable CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR is only 27k, which
  isn't much in the grand scheme of things.  Since no one seems to be
  testing this configuration except for some automated compile farms, on
  balance we are better removing this config option, and so that it is
  effectively always enabled. -- tytso ]

Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-12-10 16:30:43 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
df981d03ee ext4: add max_dir_size_kb mount option
Very large directories can cause significant performance problems, or
perhaps even invoke the OOM killer, if the process is running in a
highly constrained memory environment (whether it is VM's with a small
amount of memory or in a small memory cgroup).

So it is useful, in cloud server/data center environments, to be able
to set a filesystem-wide cap on the maximum size of a directory, to
ensure that directories never get larger than a sane size.  We do this
via a new mount option, max_dir_size_kb.  If there is an attempt to
grow the directory larger than max_dir_size_kb, the system call will
return ENOSPC instead.

Google-Bug-Id: 6863013

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-08-17 09:48:17 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
69e1aaddd6 Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes
The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt
 cleanup patch series.  The same is true of the change to remove the
 s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree.  I've
 run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can
 more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge
 window.  (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from
 ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I
 ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates for 3.4 from Ted Ts'o:
 "Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes

  The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt
  cleanup patch series.  The same is true of the change to remove the
  s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree.  I've
  run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can
  more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge
  window.  (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from
  ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I
  ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (66 commits)
  vfs: remove unused superblock helpers
  mm: export dirty_writeback_interval
  ext4: remove useless s_dirt assignment
  ext4: write superblock only once on unmount
  ext4: do not mark superblock as dirty unnecessarily
  ext4: correct ext4_punch_hole return codes
  ext4: remove restrictive checks for EOFBLOCKS_FL
  ext4: always set then trimmed blocks count into len
  ext4: fix trimmed block count accunting
  ext4: fix start and len arguments handling in ext4_trim_fs()
  ext4: update s_free_{inodes,blocks}_count during online resize
  ext4: change some printk() calls to use ext4_msg() instead
  ext4: avoid output message interleaving in ext4_error_<foo>()
  ext4: remove trailing newlines from ext4_msg() and ext4_error() messages
  ext4: add no_printk argument validation, fix fallout
  ext4: remove redundant "EXT4-fs: " from uses of ext4_msg
  ext4: give more helpful error message in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
  ext4: remove unused code from ext4_ext_map_blocks()
  ext4: rewrite punch hole to use ext4_ext_remove_space()
  jbd2: cleanup journal tail after transaction commit
  ...
2012-03-28 10:02:55 -07:00
Masanari Iida
40e47125e6 Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
Eric Sandeen
661aa52057 ext4: remove the resize mount option
The resize mount option seems to be of limited value,
especially in the age of online resize2fs.  Nuke it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-20 17:53:04 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
43e625d84f ext4: remove the journal=update mount option
The V2 journal format was introduced around ten years ago,
for ext3. It seems highly unlikely that anyone will need this
migration option for ext4.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-20 17:53:04 -05:00
Yongqiang Yang
19c5246d25 ext4: add new online resize interface
This patch adds new online resize interface, whose input argument is a
64-bit integer indicating how many blocks there are in the resized fs.

In new resize impelmentation, all work like allocating group tables
are done by kernel side, so the new resize interface can support
flex_bg feature and prepares ground for suppoting resize with features
like bigalloc and exclude bitmap. Besides these, user-space tools just
passes in the new number of blocks.

We delay initializing the bitmaps and inode tables of added groups if
possible and add multi groups (a flex groups) each time, so new resize
is very fast like mkfs.

Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-01-04 17:09:44 -05:00
Lukas Czerner
4113c4caa4 ext4: remove deprecated oldalloc
For a long time now orlov is the default block allocator in the
ext4. It performs better than the old one and no one seems to claim
otherwise so we can safely drop it and make oldalloc and orlov mount
option deprecated.

This is a part of the effort to reduce number of ext4 options hence the
test matrix.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-08 14:34:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
af909a57fd ext4: documentation: remove acl and user_xattr mount options
Acl and user_xattr mount options are no longer needed since those
features are enabled by default if configured in (seee commit
ea66333694). We can not easily deprecate
mount options itself (since it is probably too early), but we can
remove it from documentation first.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-08 14:01:08 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
56889787cf ext4: improve handling of conflicting mount options
If the user explicitly specifies conflicting mount options for
delalloc or dioread_nolock and data=journal, fail the mount, instead
of printing a warning and continuing (since many user's won't look at
dmesg and notice the warning).

Also, print a single warning that data=journal implies that delayed
allocation is not on by default (since it's not supported), and
furthermore that O_DIRECT is not supported.  Improve the text in
Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt so this is clear there as well.

Similarly, if the dioread_nolock mount option is specified when the
file system block size != PAGE_SIZE, fail the mount instead of
printing a warning message and ignoring the mount option.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-09-03 18:22:38 -04:00
Lukas Czerner
ad43401771 ext3/ext4 Documentation: remove bh/nobh since it has been deprecated
Bh and nobh mount option has been deprecated in ext4
(206f7ab4f4) and in ext3
(4c4d390122)
so remove those options from documentation.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2011-06-25 17:29:52 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
59802db074 ext4: remove obsolete mount options from ext4's documentation
The block reservation code from ext3 was removed long ago...

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-01 18:14:26 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Lukas Czerner
6f9524e9e1 ext4: update ext4 documentation
Add documentation for mount options and ioctls to
Documentation/filesystem/ext4.txt, which has not been udpated for some
time.  Also add for ext4 sysfs tunables to the
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4 file, and fix a few
typographical errors in that file.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9423

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-02-21 20:16:21 -05:00
Lukas Czerner
bfff68738f ext4: add support for lazy inode table initialization
When the lazy_itable_init extended option is passed to mke2fs, it
considerably speeds up filesystem creation because inode tables are
not zeroed out.  The fact that parts of the inode table are
uninitialized is not a problem so long as the block group descriptors,
which contain information regarding how much of the inode table has
been initialized, has not been corrupted However, if the block group
checksums are not valid, e2fsck must scan the entire inode table, and
the the old, uninitialized data could potentially cause e2fsck to
report false problems.

Hence, it is important for the inode tables to be initialized as soon
as possble.  This commit adds this feature so that mke2fs can safely
use the lazy inode table initialization feature to speed up formatting
file systems.

This is done via a new new kernel thread called ext4lazyinit, which is
created on demand and destroyed, when it is no longer needed.  There
is only one thread for all ext4 filesystems in the system. When the
first filesystem with inititable mount option is mounted, ext4lazyinit
thread is created, then the filesystem can register its request in the
request list.

This thread then walks through the list of requests picking up
scheduled requests and invoking ext4_init_inode_table(). Next schedule
time for the request is computed by multiplying the time it took to
zero out last inode table with wait multiplier, which can be set with
the (init_itable=n) mount option (default is 10).  We are doing
this so we do not take the whole I/O bandwidth. When the thread is no
longer necessary (request list is empty) it frees the appropriate
structures and exits (and can be created later later by another
filesystem).

We do not disturb regular inode allocations in any way, it just do not
care whether the inode table is, or is not zeroed. But when zeroing, we
have to skip used inodes, obviously. Also we should prevent new inode
allocations from the group, while zeroing is on the way. For that we
take write alloc_sem lock in ext4_init_inode_table() and read alloc_sem
in the ext4_claim_inode, so when we are unlucky and allocator hits the
group which is currently being zeroed, it just has to wait.

This can be suppresed using the mount option no_init_itable.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-10-27 21:30:05 -04:00
Fang Wenqi
6d3b82f2d3 ext4: Update documentation to correct the inode_readahead_blks option name
Per commit 240799cd, the option name for readahead should be
inode_readahead_blks, not inode_readahead.

Signed-off-by: Fang Wenqi <antonf@turbolinux.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-12-24 17:51:42 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
e3bb52ae2b ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences
across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.

In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
that an alias for ext4.

Also show this status in /proc/mounts

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:28:50 -05:00
Eric Sandeen
5328e63531 ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)
It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing
real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues.  Make
this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know
that things are working out OK.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19 14:25:42 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d4da6c9ccf Revert "ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default"
This reverts commit d0646f7b63, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.

It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.

Quoth Eric:

   "My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
    bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
    not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
    initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
    checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.

    But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.

    We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
    this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
    the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
    power-fail testing with the fixes in place."

See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354

for all the gory details.

Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-02 10:15:27 -08:00
Jan Kara
8365388827 ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 15:59:34 -04:00
Jan Kara
1358870dea ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-18 12:22:29 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
d0646f7b63 ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default
There's no real cost for the journal checksum feature, and we should
make sure it is enabled all the time.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-05 12:50:43 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8a8a2050c8 ext4: document the "abort" mount option
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-13 10:08:59 -04:00
Matt LaPlante
19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
06705bff91 ext4: Regularize mount options
Add support for using the mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier", and
"auto_da_alloc" and "noauto_da_alloc", which is more consistent than
"barrier=<0|1>" or "auto_da_alloc=<0|1>".  Most other ext3/ext4 mount
options use the foo/nofoo naming convention.  We allow the old forms
of these mount options for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-28 10:59:57 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
722bde6875 ext4: Add fine print for the 32000 subdirectory limit
Some poeple are reading the ext4 feature list too literally and create
dubious test cases involving very long filenames and 1k blocksize and
then complain when they run into an htree-imposed limit.  So add fine
print to the "fix 32000 subdirectory limit" ext4 feature.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-23 00:51:57 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
83982b6f47 ext4: Remove "extents" mount option
This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was
implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents
feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to
create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag
was not eabled.  The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option
entirely.  It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new
extent-based files if the filesystem can support it.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:16 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
b3881f74b3 ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-05 22:46:26 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
c319106723 ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode
This code has been obsolete in quite some time, since the supported
method for adding a journal inode is to use tune2fs (or to creating
new filesystem with a journal via mke2fs or mkfs.ext4).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 11:14:25 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
30773840c1 ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobs
Add new mount options, min_batch_time and max_batch_time, which
controls how long the jbd2 layer should wait for additional filesystem
operations to get batched with a synchronous write transaction.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03 20:27:38 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
8e1a4857cd Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
Fix paragraph with recommendations on how to tune ext4 for benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06 14:53:06 -05:00
Diego Calleja
22359f5745 ext4: Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
Since Ext4 is supposed to be stable in 2.6.28-rc, ext4's documentation
file should be updated.

[ More updates also added by Theodore Ts'o. ]

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 09:15:14 -04:00
Hidehiro Kawai
5bf5683a33 ext4: add an option to control error handling on file data
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>
2008-10-10 22:12:43 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
03010a3350 ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
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>
2008-10-10 20:02:48 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
240799cdf2 ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table
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>
2008-10-09 23:53:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
4537398d91 ext4: Update documentation to remind users to update mke2fs.conf
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-27 19:59:21 -04:00
Mingming Cao
49f1487b2e ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocation
Adding some documentations for delayed allocation and new ordered mode.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jose R. Santos
93e3270c87 ext4: Documentation updates.
Some of the information in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt is out
of date and in need of an update.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
571640cad3 ext4: enable barriers by default
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>
2008-05-26 12:29:46 -04:00
Alex Tomas
c9de560ded ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
Girish Shilamkar
818d276ceb ext4: Add the journal checksum feature
The journal checksum feature adds two new flags i.e
JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM.

JBD2_FEATURE_CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the
checksum for the blocks described by the descriptor blocks.
Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be
synchronous. Now commit record can be sent to disk without waiting for
descriptor blocks to be written to disk. This behavior is controlled
using JBD2_FEATURE_ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older kernels/e2fsck should not be
able to recover the journal with _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made
incompat.
The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the
type of the checksum.

For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity
and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-28 23:58:27 -05:00
Dave Kleikamp
fc513a333b [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
This file, ext4.txt, was put together with information from Andrew Morton,
Andreas Dilger, Suparna Bhattacharya, and Ted Ts'o.

I copied the mount options, with the exception of "extents", from ext3.txt,
so if anyone is aware of anything out-of-date, please let me know.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00