linux-toradex.git/fs/ext2/ext2.h, branch v2.6.38.2

fs: add sync_inode_metadata

2010-10-26T01:18:19+00:00

Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation.  A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

merge ext2 delete_inode and clear_inode, switch to ->evict_inode()

2010-08-09T20:47:57+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

clean up write_begin usage for directories in pagecache

2010-08-09T20:47:31+00:00

For filesystem that implement directories in pagecache we call
block_write_begin with an already allocated page for this code, while the
normal regular file write path uses the default block_write_begin behaviour.

Get rid of the __foofs_write_begin helper and opencode the normal write_begin
call in foofs_write_begin, while adding a new foofs_prepare_chunk helper for
the directory code.  The added benefit is that foofs_prepare_chunk has
a much saner calling convention.

Note that the interruptible flag passed into block_write_begin is always
ignored if we already pass in a page (see next patch for details), and
we never were doing truncations of exessive blocks for this case either so we
can switch directly to block_write_begin_newtrunc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention.

2010-05-28T02:15:57+00:00

I also have commented a possible bug in existing ext2 code, marked with XXX.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

2010-05-28T02:05:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

pass writeback_control to ->write_inode

2010-03-05T18:25:52+00:00

This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
is happening.  Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext2: report metadata errors during fsync

2009-12-16T15:20:06+00:00

When an IO error happens while writing metadata buffers, we should better
report it and call ext2_error since the filesystem is probably no longer
consistent.  Sometimes such IO errors happen while flushing thread does
background writeback, the buffer gets later evicted from memory, and thus
the only trace of the error remains as AS_EIO bit set in blockdevice's
mapping.  So we check this bit in ext2_fsync and report the error although
we cannot be really sure which buffer we failed to write.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: Unify log messages in ext2

2009-12-10T14:02:52+00:00

make messages produced by ext2 more unified. It should be
easy to parse.

dmesg before patch:
[ 4893.684892] reservations ON
[ 4893.684896] xip option not supported
[ 4893.684961] EXT2-fs warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
[ 4893.684964] EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running
e2fsck is recommended
[ 4893.684990] EXT II FS: 0.5b, 95/08/09, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=2,
bpg=8192, ipg=1280, mo=80010]

dmesg after patch:
[ 4893.684892] EXT2-fs (loop0): reservations ON
[ 4893.684896] EXT2-fs (loop0): xip option not supported
[ 4893.684961] EXT2-fs (loop0): warning: mounting ext3 filesystem as
ext2
[ 4893.684964] EXT2-fs (loop0): warning: maximal mount count reached,
running e2fsck is recommended
[ 4893.684990] EXT2-fs (loop0): 0.5b, 95/08/09, bs=1024, fs=1024, gc=2,
bpg=8192, ipg=1280, mo=80010]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Fisher 
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

switch ext2 to inode->i_acl

2009-06-24T12:15:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext2: Do not update mtime of a moved directory

2009-06-18T20:03:44+00:00

One of our users is complaining that his backup tool is upset on ext2
(while it's happy on ext3, xfs, ...) because of the mtime change.

The problem is:

    mkdir foo
    mkdir bar
    mkdir foo/a

Now under ext2:
    mv foo/a foo/b

changes mtime of 'foo/a' (foo/b after the move).  That does not really
make sense and it does not happen under any other filesystem I've seen.

More complicated is:
    mv foo/a bar/a

This changes mtime of foo/a (bar/a after the move) and it makes some
sense since we had to update parent directory pointer of foo/a.  But
again, no other filesystem does this.  So after some thoughts I'd vote
for consistency and change ext2 to behave the same as other filesystems.

Do not update mtime of a moved directory.  Specs don't say anything
about it (neither that it should, nor that it should not be updated) and
other common filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, fat, ...) don't do
it.  So let's become more consistent.

Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de, initial fix by Jörn Engel.

Reported-by: 
Cc: 
Cc: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds