From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with overlapped bitmaps
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:18:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201006031834.GA5797@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201006025110.GJ49559@magnolia>
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 07:51:10PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > Could /somebody/ please document the ondisk format changes that are
> > > associated with this feature?
> >
> > I pretty much had to sort it out by looking at a combination of
> > e2fsprogs and the kernel, and a lot of experimentation, until I ended up
> > with something that the kernel was completely happy with without a
> > single complaint.
> >
> > I'd be happy to write up a summary of the format.
>
> Seems like a good idea, particularly since you're asking for a format
> change that requires kernel support and the ondisk format documentation
> lives under Documentation/. That said...
> > If you set up the rest of the metadata consistently with it (for
> > instance, 0 free blocks and 0 free inodes), you'll only get a single
> > complaint, from the e2fsck equivalent of block_validity. See
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956509 for details on
> > that;
>
> ...Ted shot down this whole thing six months ago.
>
> The Debian bug database is /not/ the designated forum to discuss changes
> to the ondisk format; linux-ext4 is.
What Josh is proposing I'm pretty sure would also break "e2fsck -E
unshare_blocks", so that's another reason not to accept this as a
valid format change.
As far as I'm concerned, contrib/e2fsdroid is the canonical definition
of how to create valid file systems with shared_blocks.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-06 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-04 23:17 Linux 5.9-rc8 Linus Torvalds
2020-10-05 8:14 ` ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with overlapped bitmaps Josh Triplett
2020-10-05 9:46 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 10:16 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-05 16:19 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 16:20 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 17:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-06 0:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-06 0:32 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 2:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-06 3:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-10-06 5:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 6:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 13:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-07 8:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-07 14:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-07 20:14 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-08 2:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-08 17:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-08 22:38 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-09 2:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-09 19:08 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-08 22:22 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-09 14:37 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-09 20:30 ` Josh Triplett
2021-01-10 18:41 ` Malicious fs images was " Pavel Machek
2021-01-11 18:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-11 19:39 ` Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 21:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-01-12 22:28 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-13 5:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2020-10-08 2:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-10-08 19:12 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-08 19:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-10-08 22:28 ` Josh Triplett
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