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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:10:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190215021029.GF7387@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1547339800-50257-1-git-send-email-adilger@dilger.ca>

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 05:36:40PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Don't update the superblock s_rev_level during mount if it isn't
> actually necessary, only if superblock features are being set by
> the kernel.  This was originally added for ext3 since it always
> set the INCOMPAT_RECOVER and HAS_JOURNAL features during mount,
> but this is not needed since no journal mode was added to ext4.
> 
> That will allow Geert to mount his 20-year-old ext2 rev 0.0 m68k
> filesystem, as a testament of the backward compatibility of ext4.
> 
> Fixes: 0390131ba84f ("ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal")
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

Thanks, applied.  I had to move the declaration of
ext4_update_dynamic_rev() earlier as Geert suggested.

						- Ted

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-15  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-12  9:43 Preserving a rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-13  0:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2019-01-14 10:23   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-14 12:50     ` Jan Kara
2019-01-13  0:36 ` [PATCH] ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required Andreas Dilger
2019-01-14 10:25   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-02-15  2:10   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]

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