From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/37] ext5: define new subtype to add features and reduce testing complexity
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:21:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140506152129.GA31730@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1405061339470.2255@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> meta_bg - Just makes group descriptors to be spread across the file
> system. It has been around for some time and I am not sure
> why this is not a default already. It should also increase
> the limit of the file system size but I am not sure whether
> this is still true with flex_bg ?
meta_bg signiicantly slows down mount operations (and in general, any
operation where we need to read in the block group descriptors ---
i.e., dumpe2fs, e2fsck, etc.)
The strategy for meta_bg is that it's something that we enable as we
need it, as part of an online or off-line resize. That way, we keep
the block groups contiguous for as long as possible. Once the resize
inode has been exhausted (which _will_ happen when the file system
size grows beyond 16T), the resize operation will turn off the
resize_inode feature and then enable the meta_bg feature.
And this is all working today, with the latest kernel and e2fsprogs;
so there's no reason to enable meta_bg as part of mke2fs operation,
and a good reason not to enable it by default, but to let resize2fs
turn it on when it makes sense to do so.
- Ted
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 23:12 [PATCH 00/37] e2fsprogs patchbomb 5/14 Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 01/37] misc: create better-packaged static analysis reports Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-11 22:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 02/37] misc: coverity fixes Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:17 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 20:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-11 22:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 03/37] libext2fs: create sockets when populating filesystem Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:22 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 20:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-11 22:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 04/37] mke2fs: always warn if 128-byte inode and inline_data Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:27 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 20:10 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-12 0:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 05/37] debugfs: teach logdump to deal with 64bit revoke tables Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:38 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 22:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 11:35 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-12 1:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 06/37] debugfs: force logdump to display (old) journal contents Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:49 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-06 0:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-12 1:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-12 3:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-14 0:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 07/37] resize2fs: fix check for collision between old GDT and superblock on sparse_super2 fs Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-12 3:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 08/37] mke2fs: set gdt csum when creating packed fs Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 11:55 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-12 4:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 09/37] mke2fs: set error behavior at initialization time Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 12:13 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 10/37] e2fsck: verify checksums after checking everything else Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 12:32 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 22:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 11:32 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-08 0:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 11/37] e2fsck: fix the extended attribute checksum error message Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 12:46 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 23:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 10:12 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 12/37] e2fsck: insert a missing dirent tail for checksums if possible Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 12:54 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-05 23:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 13/37] e2fsck: write dir blocks after new inode when reconstructing root/lost+found Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-05 17:13 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 14/37] dumpe2fs: add switch to disable checksum verification Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-05 17:20 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 15/37] mke2fs: set block_validity as a default mount option Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-05 17:24 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 16/37] libext2fs: support allocating uninit blocks in bmap2() Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 15:45 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-06 19:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-07 10:02 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-07 21:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-08 0:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] libext2fs: support BLKZEROOUT/FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE in ext2fs_zero_blocks Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-13 11:11 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-08 0:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] libext2fs: support allocating uninit blocks in bmap2() Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-27 16:28 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-28 19:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 17/37] libext2fs: file IO routines should handle uninit blocks Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 18/37] resize2fs: convert fs to and from 64bit mode Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 19/37] resize2fs: when toggling 64bit, don't free in-use bg data clusters Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 20/37] resize2fs: adjust reserved_gdt_blocks when changing group descriptor size Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 21/37] libext2fs: have UNIX IO manager use pread/pwrite Darrick J. Wong
2014-08-02 23:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 22/37] ext2fs: add readahead method to improve scanning Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 23/37] e2fsck: provide routines to read-ahead metadata Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:14 ` [PATCH 24/37] e2fsck: read-ahead metadata during passes 1, 2, and 4 Darrick J. Wong
2014-07-28 22:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 25/37] libext2fs: when appending to a file, don't split an index block in equal halves Darrick J. Wong
2014-08-02 23:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 26/37] libext2fs: find inode goal when allocating blocks Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 27/37] libext2fs: find a range of empty blocks Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 28/37] libext2fs: provide a function to set inode size Darrick J. Wong
2014-07-26 18:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 29/37] libext2fs: implement fallocate Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 31/37] fuse2fs: translate ACL structures Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:15 ` [PATCH 32/37] fuse2fs: handle 64-bit dates correctly Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 33/37] fuse2fs: implement fallocate Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 35/37] tests: enable using fuse2fs with metadata checksum test Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 36/37] tests: test date handling Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-01 23:16 ` [PATCH 37/37] ext5: define new subtype to add features and reduce testing complexity Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-02 9:45 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-02 14:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-06 1:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 1:33 ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-05-06 12:50 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-06 15:21 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-05-06 15:30 ` Lukáš Czerner
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