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From: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
To: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] ext4: prevent a fs without journal from being resized
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:17:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E23A5B0.6030700@tao.ma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310957555-15617-4-git-send-email-xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>

On 07/18/2011 10:52 AM, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> This patch prevents a fs without journal from being resized, because
> it is easy to detroy the fs.
Why you want to do this?  You see any corruption?
At least in our product system, no-journal mode is heavily used and we
really don't want to disable this feature.

Thanks
Tao
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/resize.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> index 53d9795..33ab40d 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ int ext4_resize_begin(struct super_block *sb)
>  		return -EPERM;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * We are not allowed to do online-resizing on a filesystem without
> +	 * journal, otherwise, it is easy to destroy the filesystem.
> +	 */
> +	if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal) {
> +		ext4_warning(sb, "There is no journal for the filesystem, "
> +			     "so online resizing is not allowed\n");
> +		return -EPERM;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (test_and_set_bit_lock(EXT4_RESIZING, &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_resize_flags))
>  		ret = -EBUSY;
>  


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-18  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-18  2:52 prevent parallel resizers and fix some error handling in resize Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 01/12] ext4: prevent parallel resizers by atomic bit ops Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 02/12] ext4: prevent a fs with errors from being resized Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 03/12] ext4: prevent a fs without journal " Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  3:17   ` Tao Ma [this message]
2011-07-18  3:28     ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  3:44       ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  7:00   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 04/12] ext4: rename ext4_add_groupblocks() to ext4_group_add_blocks() Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  6:32   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18 10:15     ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 05/12] ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks return an error code Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  6:19   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-07-18  6:47     ` Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18  6:48   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18 12:55     ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 06/12] ext4: let ext4_group_add_blocks() handle 0 blocks quickly Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 07/12] ext4: fix a typo in ext4_group_extend() Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 08/12] ext4: let setup_new_group_blocks set multi-bits each time Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  6:26   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-07-18  6:56     ` Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 09/12] ext4: simplify journal handling in ext4_setup_new_group_blocks Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  3:09   ` Tao Ma
2011-07-18  3:21     ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  3:40       ` Tao Ma
2011-07-18  3:46         ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 10/12] ext4: remove lock_buffer in bclean() and setup_new_group_blocks Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 11/12] ext4: simplify parameters of add_new_gdb() Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  6:46   ` Andreas Dilger
2011-07-18  2:52 ` [PATCH 12/12] ext4: simplify parameters of reserve_backup_gdb() Yongqiang Yang
2011-07-18  7:12   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18  6:16 ` prevent parallel resizers and fix some error handling in resize Amir Goldstein
2011-07-18 10:16   ` Yongqiang Yang

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