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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mke2fs: add discard to default mke2fs.conf and disable by default
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:04:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516F1C8A.9040702@redhat.com> (raw)

Discard is a very big hammer.  If it succeeds, there's no undo
or going back; on the other hand, on some devices the giant discard
issued at mkfs time makes them go offline.  :(

Although I'm reluctant to waffle back and forth on default behavior,
I think this disabling it by default the prudent thing to do.

This patch also adds the discard option into the default mke2fs.conf
file; although it could be set, it was not in the template.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

If disabling by default isn't desired, we should at least include
the mke2fs.conf.in change (set to 1).

Thanks,
-Eric

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index 023ba49..a005eca 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -277,11 +277,11 @@ Attempt to discard blocks at mkfs time (discarding blocks initially is useful
 on solid state devices and sparse / thin-provisioned storage). When the device
 advertises that discard also zeroes data (any subsequent read after the discard
 and before write returns zero), then mark all not-yet-zeroed inode tables as
-zeroed. This significantly speeds up filesystem initialization. This is set
-as default.
+zeroed. This significantly speeds up filesystem initialization. This is disabled
+by default.
 .TP
 .BI nodiscard
-Do not attempt to discard blocks at mkfs time.
+Do not attempt to discard blocks at mkfs time.  This is the default.
 .TP
 .BI quotatype
 Specify which quota type ('usr' or 'grp') is to be initialized. This
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index bbf477a..d723ee7 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ int	cflag;
 int	verbose;
 int	quiet;
 int	super_only;
-int	discard = 1;	/* attempt to discard device before fs creation */
+int	discard;	/* attempt to discard device before fs creation? */
 int	direct_io;
 int	force;
 int	noaction;
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.conf.in b/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
index 178733f..db6decb 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	base_features = sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr
 	default_mntopts = acl,user_xattr
 	enable_periodic_fsck = 0
+	discard = 0
 	blocksize = 4096
 	inode_size = 256
 	inode_ratio = 16384


             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-17 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-17 22:04 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2013-04-17 22:33 ` [PATCH] mke2fs: add discard to default mke2fs.conf and disable by default Eric Sandeen
2013-04-17 23:19 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2013-04-18 23:09   ` Eric Sandeen

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