2008-09-14 21:19:57

by Eric Sandeen

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Subject: [PATCH] properly show journal checksum/async options

The journal_checksum option is not being displayed in
/proc/mounts ... add this to the show_options() output, but
only if journal_async_commit is not specified, as that enables
journal_checksum internally.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
---

(Aside: this reminds me that we only show non-default options
in show_options; has there been any discussion of whether
these should be defaults?)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2008-09-14 16:12:54.898077064 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/super.c 2008-09-14 16:13:22.878077407 -0500
@@ -746,8 +746,12 @@ static int ext4_show_options(struct seq_
*/
seq_puts(seq, ",barrier=");
seq_puts(seq, test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? "1" : "0");
+ /* journal_async_commit enables journal_checksum internally */
if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT))
seq_puts(seq, ",journal_async_commit");
+ else if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM))
+ seq_puts(seq, ",journal_checksum");
+
if (test_opt(sb, NOBH))
seq_puts(seq, ",nobh");
if (!test_opt(sb, EXTENTS))



2008-09-20 23:10:30

by Theodore Ts'o

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] properly show journal checksum/async options

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:18:59PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The journal_checksum option is not being displayed in
> /proc/mounts ... add this to the show_options() output, but
> only if journal_async_commit is not specified, as that enables
> journal_checksum internally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>

Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>

I'll add it to the patch queue, probably combined with a patch to add
journal_sync_commit, and with a patch to make journal_async_commit the
default.

> (Aside: this reminds me that we only show non-default options
> in show_options; has there been any discussion of whether
> these should be defaults?)

Good point, thanks for raising the question.

The reason why journal_async_commit wasn't turned on by default
originally was because e2fsck didn't have support for journal
checksums before e2fsprogs 1.41.0. At this point, it seems like
turning on async_commit is the obvious (and performant) thing to do;
any objections?

- Ted