The e2fsprogs and kernel implementation of directory hash tree has a
bug which causes the implementation to be dependent on whether
characters are signed or unsigned. Platforms such as the PowerPC,
Arm, and S/390 have signed characters by default, which means that
hash directories on those systems are incompatible with hash
directories on other systems, such as the x86.
To fix this we add a new flags field to the superblock, and define two
new bits in that field to indicate whether or not the directory should
be signed or unsigned. If the bits are not set, e2fsck and fixed
kernels will set them to the signed/unsigned value of the currently
running platform, and then respect those bits when calculating the
directory hash. This allows compatibility with current filesystems,
as well as allowing cross-architectural compatibility.
Addresses Debian Bug: #389772
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE (0x0008) - change i_blocks to be
in units of s_blocksize units instead of 512-byte sectors, use
l_i_frag and l_i_fsize as i_blocks_hi (could also be part of 64BIT).
E2fsck and debugfs changed to support i_blocks_hi instead of l_i_frag and
l_i_fsize.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Generalize the time parsing code and move it to
util.c:string_to_time(). Add new command, set_current_time, which
sets the time used to set the filesystems's time fields.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The set_inodes_field command was silently failing when setting one of
the following fields: frag, fsize, uid_high, gid_high, and author.
The type size for these fields were set to an incorrect value in the
inode_fields table.
fields to be set. For example, to set i_block[2] for the resize inode to
be 42, simply issue the debugfs command:
set_inode <7> block[2] 42
Also added is the virtual field "bmap", which also takes an array index.
So to set the physical block mapping for logical block 1282 in the file
/test/inode to be 57, use the debugfs command:
set_inode /test/inode bmap[1282] 57
lastcheck, and mkfs_time fields with date/time values.
Add the set_inode command to debugfs so that individual inode fields can
be more easily modified. We should probably make the modify_inode
command go away at some point.
Theodore Ts'o