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2009-03-28ext4: Regularize mount optionsTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-03-16ext4: Add auto_da_alloc mount optionTheodore Ts'o
Add a mount option which allows the user to disable automatic allocation of blocks whose allocation by delayed allocation when the file was originally truncated or when the file is renamed over an existing file. This feature is intended to save users from the effects of naive application writers, but it reduces the effectiveness of the delayed allocation code. This mount option disables this safety feature, which may be desirable for prodcutions systems where the risk of unclean shutdowns or unexpected system crashes is low. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use struct flex_groups to calculate get_orlov_stats()Theodore Ts'o
Instead of looping over all of the block groups in a flex group summing their summary statistics, start tracking used_dirs in struct flex_groups, and use struct flex_groups instead. This should save a bit of CPU for mkdir-heavy workloads. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-04ext4: Use atomic_t's in struct flex_groupsTheodore Ts'o
Reduce pressure on the sb_bgl_lock family of locks by using atomic_t's to track the number of free blocks and inodes in each flex_group. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31ext4: remove /proc tuning knobsTheodore Ts'o
Remove tuning knobs in /proc/fs/ext4/<dev/* since they have been replaced by knobs in sysfs at /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-31ext4: Add sysfs supportTheodore Ts'o
Add basic sysfs support so that information about the mounted filesystem and various tuning parameters can be accessed via /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/*. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-28ext4: Track lifetime disk writesTheodore Ts'o
Add a new superblock value which tracks the lifetime amount of writes to the filesystem. This is useful in estimating the amount of wear on solid state drives (SSD's) caused by writes to the filesystem. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-15ext4: allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock separatelyPekka Enberg
As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext4_sb_info is 17664 bytes on 64-bit which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators. The culprit of the wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when NR_CPUS >= 32. To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2 page in the worst case, separately. This shinks down struct ext4_sb_info enough to fit a 2 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 2 KB instead of 32 KB saving 14 KB of memory. Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-26ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functionsJan Kara
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
2009-03-26ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocationMingming Cao
Uses quota reservation/claim/release to handle quota properly for delayed allocation in the three steps: 1) quotas are reserved when data being copied to cache when block allocation is defered 2) when new blocks are allocated. reserved quotas are converted to the real allocated quota, 2) over-booked quotas for metadata blocks are released back. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-03-26ext4: Remove unnecessary quota functionsJan Kara
ext4_dquot_initialize() and ext4_dquot_drop() is no longer needed because of modified quota locking. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-02-28ext4: Remove duplicate call to ext4_commit_super() in ext4_freeze()Theodore Ts'o
Commit c4be0c1d added error checking to ext4_freeze() when calling ext4_commit_super(). Unfortunately the patch failed to remove the original call to ext4_commit_super(), with the net result that when freezing the filesystem, the superblock gets written twice, the first time without error checking. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-02-10Revert "ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()"Jan Kara
This undoes commit 14ce0cb411c88681ab8f3a4c9caa7f42e97a3184. Since jbd2_journal_start_commit() is now fixed to return 1 when we started a transaction commit, there's some transaction waiting to be committed or there's a transaction already committing, we don't need to call ext4_force_commit() in ext4_sync_fs(). Furthermore ext4_force_commit() can unnecessarily create sync transaction which is expensive so it's worthwhile to remove it when we can. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12224 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-09filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfsTakashi Sato
Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which suspends write requests. So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and replication) while it is mounted. In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g. VxFS) has the freeze feature and it would be used to get the consistent backup. If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it without a commercial filesystem. So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature. I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps. 1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl. 2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot with the storage device's feature. 3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl. 4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume or the snapshot. This patch: VFS: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they can return an error. Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion. ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed, and unlockfs always returns 0. reiserfs: Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void" to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com> Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (57 commits) jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_init_inode() on corrupted fs ext4: Remove "extents" mount option block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LBD ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: " ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priority jbd2: Submit writes to the journal using WRITE_SYNC jbd2: Add pid and journal device name to the "kjournald2 starting" message ext4: Add markers for better debuggability ext4: Remove code to create the journal inode ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure ext3: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressure add releasepage hooks to block devices which can be used by file systems ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() ext4: code cleanup ...
2009-01-06ext4: Remove "extents" mount optionTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-01-06ext4: Make printk's consistently prefixed with "EXT4-fs: "Theodore Ts'o
Previously, some were "ext4: ", and some were "EXT4: "; change them to be consistent with most ext4 printk's, which is to use "EXT4-fs: ". Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-06ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystemTheodore Ts'o
This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel oops due to null pointer derefences. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371 Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-05ext4: Add mount option to set kjournald's I/O priorityTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-01-05ext4: Add default allocation routines for quota structuresJan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-01-05ext4: Use sb_any_quota_loaded() instead of sb_any_quota_enabled()Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2009-01-06ext4: Remove code to create the journal inodeTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-01-05ext4: provide function to release metadata pages under memory pressureToshiyuki Okajima
Pages in the page cache belonging to ext4 data files are released via the ext4_releasepage() function specified in the ext4 inode's address_space_ops. However, metadata blocks (such as indirect blocks, directory blocks, etc) are managed via the block device address_space_ops, and they can not be released by try_to_free_buffers() if they have a journal head attached to them. To address this, we supply a release_metadata function which calls jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() function to free the metadata, and which is called by the block device's blkdev_releasepage() function. Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2009-01-05ext4: Use high 16 bits of the block group descriptor's free counts fieldsAneesh Kumar K.V
Rename the lower bits with suffix _lo and add helper to access the values. Also rename bg_itable_unused_hi to bg_pad as in e2fsprogs. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: fix BUG when calling ext4_error with locked block groupAneesh Kumar K.V
The mballoc code likes to call ext4_error while it is holding locked block groups. This can causes a scheduling in atomic context BUG. We can't just unlock the block group and relock it after/if ext4_error returns since that might result in race conditions in the case where the filesystem is set to continue after finding errors. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-12-29Get rid of CONFIG_LSFJens Axboe
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording to indicate that it covers both. Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-22ext4: sparse fixesAneesh Kumar K.V
* Change EXT4_HAS_*_FEATURE to return a boolean * Add a function prototype for ext4_fiemap() in ext4.h * Make ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() and ext4_xattr_fiemap() be static functions * Add lock annotations to mb_free_blocks() Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: Make ext4_group_t be an unsigned intTheodore Ts'o
Nearly all places in the ext3/4 code which uses "unsigned long" is probably a bug, since on 32-bit systems a ulong a 32-bits, which means we are wasting stack space on 64-bit systems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-03ext4: add fsync batch tuning knobsTheodore Ts'o
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>
2009-01-05ext4: remove extraneous newlines from calls to ext4_error() and ext4_warning()Theodore Ts'o
This removes annoying blank syslog entries emitted by ext4_error() or ext4_warning(), since these functions add their own newline. Signed-off-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-07ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journalFrank Mayhar
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run without a journal. Since that time I've integrated the excellent comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs. We're currently running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without a journal. It just so happens that running without a journal is slightly faster for most everything. We did iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2 which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens to bypass the page cache. Results: ext2 ext4, default ext4, no journal initial writes 13.0 MB/s 15.4 MB/s 15.7 MB/s rewrites 13.1 MB/s 15.6 MB/s 15.9 MB/s reads 15.2 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s re-reads 15.3 MB/s 16.9 MB/s 17.2 MB/s random readers 5.6 MB/s 5.6 MB/s 5.7 MB/s random writers 5.1 MB/s 5.3 MB/s 5.4 MB/s So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-26ext4: Use simple_strtol() instead of simple_strtoul() in ext4_ui_proc_openRoel Kluin
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05ext4: avoid ext4_error when mounting a fs with a single bgAneesh Kumar K.V
Remove some completely unneeded code which which caused an ext4_error to be generated when mounting a file system with only a single block group. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-11-03ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()Theodore Ts'o
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>
2008-11-04ext4: Convert to host order before using the values.Aneesh Kumar K.V
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>
2008-10-28ext4: Add support for non-native signed/unsigned htree hash algorithmsTheodore Ts'o
The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-27ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abortHidehiro Kawai
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>
2008-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdevLinus Torvalds
* 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 ...
2008-10-23[PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21[PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-16ext4: Remove automatic enabling of the HUGE_FILE feature flagTheodore Ts'o
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>
2008-10-17ext4: Remove unused mount options: nomballoc, mballoc, nocheckTheodore Ts'o
These mount options don't actually do anything any more, so remove them. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17ext4: Add missing newlines to printk messagesEric Sesterhenn
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>
2008-10-10ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recoveryAneesh Kumar K.V
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>
2008-10-13vfs: Use const for kernel parser tableSteven Whitehouse
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>
2008-10-12ext4: fix build failure without procfsAlexander Beregalov
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>
2008-10-10ext4: add an option to control error handling on file dataHidehiro Kawai
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>
2008-10-10ext4: add checks for errors from jbd2Hidehiro Kawai
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>
2008-10-10ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4Theodore Ts'o
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>
2008-10-06ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super()Andi Kleen
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>