1. 23 Feb, 2009 3 commits
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  3. 12 Mar, 2009 1 commit
  4. 23 Feb, 2009 1 commit
    • Bryan Donlan's avatar
      ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode · e6f009b0
      Bryan Donlan authored
      ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to
      report errors to NFS properly.  However, in ext4_lookup(), this
      -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted
      such that a directory entry references a deleted inode.  This leads to
      a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion
      on the part of the admin.
      
      The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making
      a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting
      to ls -l said link.
      
      This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives
      -ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata
      corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when
      this case is detected.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      e6f009b0
  5. 12 Mar, 2009 1 commit
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems · a4912123
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
      filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.  It is
      replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
      flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
      disabled).  The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
      each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
      or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.
      
      The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
      group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
      blocks.  This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
      speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
      like this:
      
      debugfs:  stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
      Inode: 1844562   Type: directory    Mode:  0700   Flags: 0x81000
      Generation: 1132745781    Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
      User: 15806   Group: 15806   Size: 1060864
      File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
      Links: 2   Blockcount: 2072
      Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
       ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
       atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
       mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
      crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
      Size of extra inode fields: 28
      BLOCKS:
      (0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
      TOTAL: 259
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      a4912123
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