Re: [PATCH] ext4: Protect group inode free counting with group lock.

[Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:57:59PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > We are just disabling the uninit_bg so as to let the block group
> > initialization happen in the mkfs time. I don't know why the checksum is
> > also disabled by ^uninit_bg.
> 
> The checksum is controlled by uninit_bg, because there was a need to
> ensure the bg_itable_unused count and the UNINIT flags could be
> trusted when doing an e2fsck.
> 
> If you don't want to do lazy inode table initialization, that is
> disabled by "mke2fs -E lazy_itable_init=0".

You can also disable whether or not lazy inode table initialization
happens by default via /etc/mke2fs.conf.  At work we have a very
fairly havily modified /etc/mke2fs.conf which has our
production-specific mke2fs parameters defined, so that someone who
runs mke2fs by hand will get the same result at as the automated
systems.

I can easily see how if you are trying for predictable latency
numbers, disabling lazy inode table initialization makes a huge amount
of sense.  I'd recommend doing it via /etc/mke2fs.conf, though.

Regards,

						- Ted