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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] On-disk format definition group desciptor checksums
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:28:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018192837.GE3509@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Ga4pe-0004rB-Cj@candygram.thunk.org>

On Oct 18, 2006  02:23 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On-disk format definition for group descriptor checksums
> 
> - EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM (0x0010?) - store a crc16 checksum in
>   the group descriptor (s_uuid[16] | __u32 group | ext3_group_desc
>   (excluding gd_checksum itself)).  This allows the kernel to more safely
>   manage UNINIT groups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Looks good to me.

> Index: e2fsprogs/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- e2fsprogs.orig/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h	2006-10-18 02:20:35.000000000 -0400
> +++ e2fsprogs/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h	2006-10-18 02:20:41.000000000 -0400
> @@ -144,7 +144,9 @@
>  	__u16	bg_free_inodes_count;	/* Free inodes count */
>  	__u16	bg_used_dirs_count;	/* Directories count */
>  	__u16	bg_flags;
> -	__u32	bg_reserved[3];
> +	__u32	bg_reserved[2];
> +	__u16	bg_itable_unused;	/* Unused inodes count */
> +	__u16	bg_checksum;		/* crc16(s_uuid+grouo_num+group_desc)*/
>  };
>  
>  struct ext4_group_desc
> @@ -601,6 +603,7 @@
>  #define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE	0x0002
>  /* #define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR	0x0004 not used */
>  #define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE	0x0008
> +#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM		0x0010
>  
>  #define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_COMPRESSION	0x0001
>  #define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE		0x0002

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 19:28 UTC|newest]

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2006-10-18  6:23 [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] On-disk format definition group desciptor checksums Theodore Ts'o
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