ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernel From: Eric Sandeen We've talked for a while about getting rid of any feature- setting from the kernel; this gets rid of the code which would set the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS flag on the first file write when mounted as ext4[dev]. With this patch, if the extents feature is not already set on disk, then mounting as ext4 will fall back to noextents with a warning, and if -o extents is explicitly requested, the mount will fail, also with warning. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 6 +----- fs/ext4/super.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/ialloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc9.orig/fs/ext4/ialloc.c 2008-07-11 16:05:01.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/ialloc.c 2008-07-11 16:05:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -836,14 +836,10 @@ got: goto fail_free_drop; if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) { - /* set extent flag only for diretory, file and normal symlink*/ + /* set extent flag only for directory, file and normal symlink*/ if (S_ISDIR(mode) || S_ISREG(mode) || S_ISLNK(mode)) { EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EXTENTS_FL; ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, inode); - err = ext4_update_incompat_feature(handle, sb, - EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS); - if (err) - goto fail_free_drop; } } Index: linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc9.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2008-07-11 16:05:16.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc9/fs/ext4/super.c 2008-07-11 16:05:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -1324,6 +1324,13 @@ set_qf_format: clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, NOBH); break; case Opt_extents: + if (!EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, + EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) { + ext4_warning(sb, __func__, + "extents feature not enabled " + "on this filesystem, use tune2fs\n"); + return 0; + } set_opt (sbi->s_mount_opt, EXTENTS); break; case Opt_noextents: @@ -1997,12 +2004,18 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super /* * turn on extents feature by default in ext4 filesystem - * User -o noextents to turn it off + * only if feature flag already set by mkfs or tune2fs. + * Use -o noextents to turn it off */ - set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, EXTENTS); + if (EXT4_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)) + set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, EXTENTS); + else + ext4_warning(sb, __func__, + "extents feature not enabled on this filesystem, " + "use tune2fs.\n"); /* - * turn on mballoc feature by default in ext4 filesystem - * User -o nomballoc to turn it off + * turn on mballoc code by default in ext4 filesystem + * Use -o nomballoc to turn it off */ set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, MBALLOC);