Port tune2fs' -e flag to mke2fs so that we can set error behavior at
format time, and introduce the equivalent errors= setting into
mke2fs.conf.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Add the mke2fs.conf configuration option which causes the hugefiles to
be aligned to the beginning of the disk. This is important if the the
reason for aligning the hugefiles is to support hard-drive specific
features such as Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR).
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
If mke2fs needs to ask the user for permission, and the user doesn't
type anything the specified delay in the /etc/mke2fs.conf file,
proceed as if the user had said yes. The default is to do what we
currently do, which is to wait until the user answers the question one
way or the other.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add the extended options packed_meta_blocks and journal_location_front
which causes mke2fs to place the metadata blocks at the beginning of
the file system.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In practice, it is **extremely** rare for users to try to use more
than the first backup superblock located at the beginning of block
group #1. (i.e., at block number 32768 for file systems with a 4k
block size). This new compat feature restricts the backup superblock
to block group #1 and the last block group in the file system.
Aside from reducing the overhead of the file system by a small number
of blocks, by eliminating the rest of the backup superblocks, it
allows us to have a much more flexible metadata layout. For example,
we can force all of the allocation bitmaps and inode table blocks to
the beginning of the disk, which allows most of the disk to be
exclusively used for contiguous data blocks.
This simplifies taking advantage of certain HDD specific features,
such as Shingled Magnetic Recording (aka Shingled Drives), and the
TCG's OPAL Storage Specification where having a simple mapping between
LBA block ranges and the data blocks used by the file system can make
life much simpler.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Explain more clearly how boolean relations in the mke2fs.conf file are
parsed, and which config parameters are in fact boolean relations.
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #634883
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds support for specifying 'reserved_ratio' (percent blocks
reserved for super user, same as '-m' command line option) in mke2fs.conf.
It adds profile_get_double function in profile.c that allows reading
floating point values from profile files.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fix a few typos in manpages.
Reported-by: Branislav Náter <bnater@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
User namespace xattrs are generally useful, and I think extN
is the only filesystem requiring a special mount option to
enable them, when xattrs are otherwise available. So this
change sets that mount option into the defaults, via a
mke2fs.conf option.
Note that if xattrs are config'd off, this will lead to a
mostly-harmless:
EXT4-fs (sdc1): (no)user_xattr options not supported
message at mount time...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The forced fsck often comes at unexpected and inopportune moments,
and even enterprise customers are often caught by surprise when
this happens. Because a filesystem with an error condition will
be marked as requiring fsck anyway, I submit that the time-based
and mount-based checks are not particularly useful, and that
administrators can schedule fscks on their own time, or tune2fs
the enforced intervals if they so choose. This patch disables the
intervals by default, and I've added a new mkfs.conf option to
turn on the old behavior of random, unexpected, time-consuming
fscks at boot time. ;)
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Allow to specify discard in mke2fs.conf. Also change the way how to
specify default value for lazy_itable_init. It is better to have all
this defaulting done in the same place so do it in definition (as we do
with discard).
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We need to defer setting the blocks count field in the fs_param
structure until it is known whether 64-bit feature will be enabled
(and whether the blocks count is valid).
We also add a new mke2fs.conf configuration parameter,
auto_64-bit_support which will automatically enable the 64-bit feature
if the number of blocks requires it.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Thanks to A. Costa for pointing these out.
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #498100
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #498101
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #498102
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #498103
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When running mke2fs, if a file system is detected
on the device, we use Undo I/O manager as the io manager.
This helps in reverting the changes made to the filesystem
in case we wrongly selected the device.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Change the way we allocate bitmaps and inode tables if the FLEX_BG
feature is used at mke2fs time. It places calculates a new offset for
bitmaps and inode table base on the number of groups that the user
wishes to pack together using the new "-G" option. Creating a
filesystem with 64 block groups in a flex group can be done by:
mke2fs -j -I 256 -O flex_bg -G 32 /dev/sdX
Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Instead of using -O lazy_bg,uninit_bg as the way of requesting that
the inode table be lazy unitialized, use the parameter
lazy_itable_init, which can either be set via mke2fs's -E option, or
via /etc/mke2fs.conf.
Also fix some random problems in mke2fs's man page, including
documenting the extent feature, which had been missing.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Provide mke2fs with a much more sophisticated system for controlling
configuration parameters of a newly created filesystem based on a
split filesystem and usage type system. The -t option to mke2fs was a
deprecated alias to -c; it now specifies a filesystem type (ext2,
ext3, ext4, etc.), while the -T option can now be a comma separated
usage list.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch allows "inode_size" to be specified in the mke2fs.conf file,
and always compiles in the "-I" option. In addition, it disallows
specifying the inode size on rev 0 filesystems, though I don't think
this was much of a danger anyways.
Clean up dead lines in ext2fs.h.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Use "stanza" to refer to top-level stanzas, and fix a few typos. Also
indent the sample profile format so it looks nicer.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Theodore Ts'o