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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-11-02 10:15:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-11-02 10:15:27 -0800 |
| commit | d4da6c9ccf648f3f1cb5bf9d981a62c253d30e28 (patch) | |
| tree | 709f8bdc50a3a1d47632047eb3670b4a4a6ff045 /fs/ext4/ext4.h | |
| parent | c35102c3e15f90fe604523a2fbffd9dc158b455a (diff) | |
Revert "ext4: Remove journal_checksum mount option and enable it by default"
This reverts commit d0646f7b636d067d715fab52a2ba9c6f0f46b0d7, as
requested by Eric Sandeen.
It can basically cause an ext4 filesystem to miss recovery (and thus get
mounted with errors) if the journal checksum does not match.
Quoth Eric:
"My hand-wavy hunch about what is happening is that we're finding a
bad checksum on the last partially-written transaction, which is
not surprising, but if we have a wrapped log and we're doing the
initial scan for head/tail, and we abort scanning on that bad
checksum, then we are essentially running an unrecovered filesystem.
But that's hand-wavy and I need to go look at the code.
We lived without journal checksums on by default until now, and at
this point they're doing more harm than good, so we should revert
the default-changing commit until we can fix it and do some good
power-fail testing with the fixes in place."
See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354
for all the gory details.
Requested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/ext4.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h index 984ca0cb38c..00d153f2f26 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ struct ext4_inode_info { #define EXT4_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x80000 /* Some quota option set */ #define EXT4_MOUNT_USRQUOTA 0x100000 /* "old" user quota */ #define EXT4_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA 0x200000 /* "old" group quota */ +#define EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_CHECKSUM 0x800000 /* Journal checksums */ #define EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT 0x1000000 /* Journal Async Commit */ #define EXT4_MOUNT_I_VERSION 0x2000000 /* i_version support */ #define EXT4_MOUNT_DELALLOC 0x8000000 /* Delalloc support */ |