Re: [PATCH] don't set extents flag for _any_ symlinks

[Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>]

Thanks, Added to patch queue
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:27 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> As symlinks are limited to a single block anyway, and e2fsck
> doesn't expect to find it set, don't set the extents flag on 
> any type of symlinks at all: fast/in-inode, or the 
> external-block flavor.
> 
> There are a lot of filesystems out there by now w/ exent-style 
> symlink blocks though, so e2fsck should probably be able to 
> repair that at some point...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c
> +++ linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/namei.c
> @@ -2223,7 +2226,6 @@ retry:
>  		inode->i_op = &ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations;
>  		memcpy((char*)&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data,symname,l);
>  		inode->i_size = l-1;
> -		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
>  	}
>  	EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = inode->i_size;
>  	err = ext4_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24.orig/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6.24/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
> @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ got:
>  		ext4_std_error(sb, err);
>  		goto fail_free_drop;
>  	}
> -	if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) {
> +	if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS) && !S_ISLNK(mode)) {
>  		EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EXTENTS_FL;
>  		ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, inode);
>  		err = ext4_update_incompat_feature(handle, sb,
> 
> -
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