The compression patches were an out-of-kernel patch set that was (a)
only available for ext2, (b) something that was never could be
stablized due to file system corruption, and (c) the most recent
patches were for 3.1, last updated in 2011.
The history of the compression patches has been a bit checkered.
There is a long history here at http://e2compr.sourceforge.net which
lists the perspective of the people working on it from the e2compr
side.
From the ext2/3/4 mainline developers' perspective, initial
compression support was added to e2fsprogs in 2000 (in the Linux 2.2
era), but due to stability concerns the kernel patches were never
merged into the mainline kernel. While there were some sporadic
efforts to try to get the ext2 compression patches working in the 2.4
and 2.6 era, by that time mainline work had moved on to ext4, and the
e2compr approach could only work with 32-bit block numbers and
indirect mapped files.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
[ Also teach libe2p's print_flags() function to display this flag so
that lsattr will allow us to see whether a file has inline data or not.
--tytso ]
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The DEFS line in MCONFIG had gotten so long that it exceeded 4k, and
this was starting to cause some tools heartburn. It also made "make
V=1" almost useless, since trying to following the individual commands
run by make was lost in the noise of all of the defines.
So fix this by putting the configure-generated defines in lib/config.h
and the directory pathnames to lib/dirpaths.h.
In addition, clean up some vestigal defines in configure.in and in the
Makefiles to further shorten the cc command lines.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The top-level COPYING file states that the e2p and ext2fs libraries
are available under the LGPLv2. The files were incorrectly labelled.
Alex Thomas/Luster has been consulted wrt to the ext3_extents.h file;
the rest of the files were primarily authored by Theodore Ts'o.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tidy up the chattr(1) manpage to completely document all
available options, and differentiate those which are read-only
early in the manpage as well.
* Remove "I" from settable attribute list
* add "e" to 2nd list of settable attributes & descriptions
* Note that h/E/I/X/Z are readonly
* Correct "H" to "h" for huge file attribute description
* fix long_name for indexed directory in flags_array
Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: BZ#502971
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
which signals that a particular inode should not have the
last bits of data (the "tail") be merged with another
file. This is necessary to keep programs like LILO happy.
ext2_fs.h (EXT2_NOCOMPR_FL): Rename EXT2_NOCOMP_FL to EXT2_NOCOMPR_FL.
ChangeLog, Makefile.in, pf.c:
pf.c (print_flags): Rename EXT2_NOCOMP_FL to EXT2_NOCOMPR_FL.
Makefile.in: Add "set -e" so that any errors in installing header
files causes an immediate exit.
Makefile.in: Install the e2p.h header.
e2p.h, pf.c (print_flags): Change the third parameter of print_flags()
to be an option parameter, although we only support one option at this
point.
pf.c (print_flags): Updated to use a more generic structure for
storing the ext2 inode flags. Add support for the (current) set of
compression flags.
Theodore Ts'o