From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with overlapped bitmaps
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 12:12:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008191231.GA44285@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F9799E9E-6AC8-4C66-B6C6-31CDFA8F55A6@dilger.ca>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 08:57:12PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > If those aren't the right way to express that, I could potentially
> > adapt. I had a similar such conversation on linux-ext4 already (about
> > inline data with 128-bit inodes), which led to me choosing to abandon
> > 128-byte inodes rather than try to get ext4 to support what I wanted
> > with them, because I didn't want to be disruptive to ext4 for a niche
> > use case. In the particular case that motivated this thread, what I was
> > doing already worked in previous kernels, and it seemed reasonable to
> > ask for it to continue to work in new kernels, while preserving the
> > newly added checks in the new kernels.
>
> This was discussed in the "Inline data with 128-byte inodes?" thread
> back in May. While Jan was not necessarily in favour of this, I was
> actually OK with improving the ext4 code to handle this case better,
> since it would (at minimum) clean up ext4 to make a clear separation
> of how it is detecting data in the i_block[] array and the system.data
> xattr, and I don't think it added any complexity to the code.
>
> I even posted a WIP patch to that effect, but didn't get a response back:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=158863275019187
My apologies, I thought I responded to that. It looks promising to me,
though I wouldn't have the bandwidth to take it to completion anytime
soon.
> I *do* think that inline_data is an under-appreciated feature that I
> would be happy to see some improvements with. I don't think that small
> files are a niche use case, and if we can clean up the inline_data code
> to work with 128-byte inodes I'm not against that, even though I'm not
> going to use that combination of features myself.
I'd love to see that happen. At the time, it seemed like too large of a
change to block on, which is why I ended up deciding to switch to
256-byte inodes.
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2020-10-05 8:14 ` ext4 regression in v5.9-rc2 from e7bfb5c9bb3d on ro fs with overlapped bitmaps Josh Triplett
2020-10-05 9:46 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 10:16 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-05 16:19 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 16:20 ` Jan Kara
2020-10-05 17:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-06 0:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-06 0:32 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 2:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-06 3:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-06 5:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 6:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-06 13:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-07 8:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-07 14:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-07 20:14 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-08 2:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-08 17:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-08 22:38 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-09 2:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-10-09 19:08 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-08 22:22 ` Josh Triplett
2020-10-09 14:37 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-09 20:30 ` Josh Triplett
2021-01-10 18:41 ` Malicious fs images was " Pavel Machek
2021-01-11 18:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-11 19:39 ` Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 21:43 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-01-12 22:28 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-13 5:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2020-10-08 2:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-10-08 19:12 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2020-10-08 19:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-10-08 22:28 ` Josh Triplett
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