What is fragment in ext3/4 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 These days, when I read the source code of mke2fs, I found an option -f to set the fragment size. But I can not find any explaining for ext3/4 framgment from google, excepting someone saying ext2/3 does not support this feature. Can anyone tell me

Re: [xfs-masters] [RFC: 2.6 patch] make the *FS_SECURITY options no longer user visible

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:27:47AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 09:29 +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:02:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Please correct me if any of the following assumptions is wrong: - SELinux is currently the only user of

Re: e2fsprogs patches

On Aug 01, 2007 21:04 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: Regarding the naming of tdb file i decided to go with mke2fs-device_name instead of mke2fs-device_name-time-stamp. I guess having multiple version of this file in the tdb_dir will confuse the user. I thought about this also - it might make

Re: [PATCH] e2fsck/e2fsprogs: answer yes/no to a group of questions

On Aug 01, 2007 14:57 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: saying yes or no to all e2fsck questions can be rather annoying (yes I know -p and -y), so here's a patch to answer yes or no to a group of questions. I've wanted something like this for quite a while already. What would be more useful,

Re: [PATCH 1/4] e2fsprogs: Add undo I/O manager

On Aug 01, 2007 21:04 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: +static errcode_t write_file_system_identity(io_channel undo_channel, + TDB_CONTEXT *tdb) +{ + /* Write to tdb file in the file system byte order */ + tdb_key.dptr = filesystem

Re: [PATCH] e2fsck/e2fsprogs: answer yes/no to a group of questions

Andreas Dilger wrote: On Aug 01, 2007 14:57 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: saying yes or no to all e2fsck questions can be rather annoying (yes I know -p and -y), so here's a patch to answer yes or no to a group of questions. I've wanted something like this for quite a while already.

Re: [PATCH 1/4] e2fsprogs: Add undo I/O manager

Andreas Dilger wrote: On Aug 01, 2007 21:04 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: +static errcode_t write_file_system_identity(io_channel undo_channel, + TDB_CONTEXT *tdb) +{ + /* Write to tdb file in the file system byte order */ +

Re: What is fragment in ext3/4 ?

On Aug 02, 2007 17:55 +0800, Coly Li wrote: These days, when I read the source code of mke2fs, I found an option -f to set the fragment size. But I can not find any explaining for ext3/4 framgment from google, excepting someone saying ext2/3 does not support this feature. Can anyone tell

How to insure ext4_alloc_blocks always returns blocks below 0xffffffff when using indirect index.

Hi all. Druing reading the source codes of indirect index, there is a doubt in my mind. When using indirect index, physical block number must not exceed 0x, but I cann' t find any clue about how ext4_alloc_blocks insure that. Codes that check 64bit_feature is only in ext4_fill_super

[PATCH 2/4][e2fsprogs] Allow FLEX_BG to be use as a feature option at mke2fs time.

From: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allow FLEX_BG to be use as a feature option at mke2fs time. Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- lib/e2p/feature.c |2 ++ lib/ext2fs/ext2fs.h |6 -- misc/mke2fs.c |3 ++- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3

[PATCH 1/4][e2fsprogs] Reserve the INCOMPAT feature number for FLEX_BG.

From: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reserve the INCOMPAT feature number for FLEX_BG. Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h b/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h index

[PATCH 4/4][e2fsprogs] New bitmap and inode table allocation for FLEX_BG

From: Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] New bitmap and inode table allocation for FLEX_BG Change the way we allocate bitmaps and inode tables if the FLEX_BG feature is used at mke2fs time. The block and inode bitmaps are allocated as a one contiguous set for each flex block group. Due to the