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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andreas Dilger 931b58e1cb ext2fs: Handle internal journal over 2^32 bytes
The write_journal_inode() code is only setting the low 32-bit i_size
for the journal size, even though it is possible to specify a journal
up to 10M blocks in size.  Trying to create a journal larger than 2GB
will succeed, but an immediate e2fsck would fail.  Store i_size_high
for the journal inode when creating it, and load it upon access.

Use s_jnl_blocks[15] to store the journal i_size_high backup.  This
field is currently unused, as EXT2_N_BLOCKS is 15, so it is using
s_jnl_blocks[0..14], and i_size is in s_jnl_blocks[16].

Rename the "size" argument "num_blocks" for the journal creation functions
to clarify this parameter is in units of filesystem blocks and not bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-06-11 12:17:29 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 2696f2501c resize2fs: fix computation of the real end of the bitmap to be 64-bit
real_end had been previously declared with a bogus type, which is why
this was missed earlier.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-07 16:38:13 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o da2a5a4bae Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	resize/resize2fs.c
2010-12-22 19:00:21 -05:00
Eric Sandeen d16db7d9de resize2fs: do not clear resize inode for 0 resvd blocks
I ran into odd behavior where mkfs.ext4 of a 16T filesystem would
create a resize inode with 0 reserved blocks, and mark the resize_inode
feature.

A subsequent slight downward resize of the filesystem would remove
the resize inode, making any further offline resizing impossible.

This is especially odd in light of the fact that a large downward
resize (say, to 8T) will actually add blocks to the resize inode -
so a small resize removes it, a large resize expands it ...

commit 8ade268cf2 had added this:

  If the filesystem is grown to the point where the resize_inode is no
  longer needed, clean it up properly so e2fsck doesn't have to.

but, it seems e2fsck does not care about this situation, either.

So, simply leave the resize_inode intact in this case, and everything
seems to be happy.

Note, this is for the 1.41.xx branch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-12-22 13:54:30 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 562f264243 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	lib/ext2fs/block.c
	lib/ext2fs/csum.c
	resize/main.c
2010-12-20 10:06:58 -05:00
Eric Sandeen 248eb837d0 resize2fs: handle exactly-16T filesystems in resize2fs
Before we go whole-hog on 64-bit e2fsprogs, I wonder if this
is worth considering as a last-minute addition to the 1.41
stream.  Currently, mke2fs will shave a block off an exactly-16T
device to fit*, but resize2fs does not do the same, leading
to some asymmetry.  This patch fixes that up, and allows 16T
devices to be handled more gracefully in offline resize.
(in fact resize2fs will not even open a 16T device, today).

*commit 37d17a65ec

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-12-16 19:17:37 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 0358c9f9a4 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	e2fsck/pass4.c
	misc/dumpe2fs.c
	resize/online.c
2010-12-13 09:16:09 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 1df56561b6 resize2fs: Clarify error explaining on-line shrinking is not supported at all
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #599786

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-11-26 19:42:15 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 230709ae7e resize2fs.8.in: Document that resize2fs -p only works on offline resizes
Addresses-Launchpad-Bug: #505719

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-11-26 19:35:30 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 63feaa13ab resize2fs.8: Make it clear that power-of-2 units are meant by kilobytes
It's sad that this needs to be made clear....

Addresses-Debian-Bug: #594004

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-09-25 20:24:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o db0bdb49f4 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	resize/extent.c
2010-07-19 02:37:41 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o b344ed7bc3 resize2fs.8: Update man page to indicate ext4 supports on-line resize
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #589345

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-19 02:23:12 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 8587d393b0 resize2fs: relax requirements for -P output a bit
Requiring an immediate pre-fsck before printing a minimum
resize size seems a bit draconian; if the fs isn't clean or marked
with error, then certainly, but for an informational minimum
size, I don't think we need to require a fsck since last mount.

I had simply copied the checks from the actual resize path,
previously.

Installers use this option (-P) to gather minimum resize info,
and requiring an actual fsck before use just seems to go too far.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-17 06:36:26 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o ac92f3cc04 e2fsck, resize2fs: fix a fp precision error that can lead to a seg fault
Commit 641b66b fixed a floating point precision error which can result
in a search algorithm looping forever.  It can also result in an array
index being out of bounds and causing a segfault.  Here are two more
cases in e2fsck and resize2fs that need to be fixed.  I've just used
the same fix from the that commit.

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-07-05 20:40:41 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson 8728d50657 resize2fs: Fix up to be 64-bit block number safe
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-06-13 18:00:00 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 97d26ce9e3 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	e2fsck/journal.c
	e2fsck/pass1.c
	e2fsck/pass2.c
	misc/mke2fs.c
2010-06-07 12:42:40 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 5fa92bc768 resize2fs: don't print minimum size if fs is not clean
Right now, resize2fs -P on a dirty filesystem will give you a number;
however, it's probably wrong if the fs is not clean:

# resize2fs -P myimage.img
resize2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Estimated minimum size of the filesystem: 75623

# e2fsck -fy myimage.img
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
myimage.img: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

myimage.img: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
myimage.img: 9530/53760 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 24737/98304 blocks

# resize2fs -P myimage.img
resize2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Estimated minimum size of the filesystem: 32165

We should issue the same "Please run e2fsck ..." message for
-P as we do for an actual resize request.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-05-12 12:44:56 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o cc84d866e2 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	e2fsck/pass1.c
2010-02-10 18:20:58 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 4828bbe9e7 resize2fs: Fix fix uninit group test accessing invalid memory
Commit 74128f8 added tests for uninit groups, but it could access past
the end of the group_desc[] array after processing the last group:

==19668== Invalid read of size 2
==19668==    at 0x40518C: resize_fs (resize2fs.c:1824)
==19668==    by 0x405A46: main (main.c:451)
==19668==  Address 0x5a0d002 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==19668==
==19668== Invalid read of size 2
==19668==    at 0x405391: resize_fs (resize2fs.c:1864)
==19668==    by 0x405A46: main (main.c:451)
==19668==  Address 0x5a0d002 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==19668==

It was found by Eric Sandeen running the regression suite through
valgrind.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2010-02-05 22:50:19 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 4486af5b4c Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	misc/mke2fs.c
2009-11-16 00:30:57 -05:00
Eric Sandeen d93d5bbf60 resize2fs: exit fix_sb_journal_backup early for external journal
Resizing a filesystem with an external journal fails when it tries
to read inode 0:

# touch testfs
# truncate testfs 1342177280
# touch testjournal
# truncate testjournal 134217728
# mke2fs -O journal_dev testjournal
# losetup /dev/loop0 testjournal
# mkfs.ext4 -J device=/dev/loop0 testfs 127680
# resize2fs testfs
resize2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Resizing the filesystem on testfs to 327680 (4k) blocks.
resize2fs: Illegal inode number while trying to resize testfs
Please run 'e2fsck -fy testfs' to fix the filesystem
after the aborted resize operation.

I think the right, simple thing to do is just bail out early
for an external journal here, as there are no backup blocks
to update.

Reported-by: mjevans1983@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-12 19:46:56 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 6493f8e85d Convert ext2fs_group_of_blk() to ext2fs_group_of_blk2()
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-25 20:50:15 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson 48f23054bb Convert ext2fs_block_alloc_stats() calls to block_alloc_stats2()
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-25 21:46:58 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson d7cca6b06f Convert to use block group accessor functions
Convert direct accesses to use the following block group accessor
functions: ext2fs_block_bitmap_loc(), ext2fs_inode_bitmap_loc(),
ext2fs_inode_table_loc(), ext2fs_bg_itable_unused(),
ext2fs_block_bitmap_loc_set(), ext2fs_inode_bitmap_loc_set(),
ext2fs_inode_table_loc_set(), ext2fs_bg_free_inodes_count(),
ext2fs_ext2fs_bg_used_dirs_count(), ext2fs_bg_free_inodes_count_set(),
ext2fs_bg_free_blocks_count_set(), ext2fs_bg_used_dirs_count_set()

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-25 21:43:47 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o cd65a24e75 libext2fs: Convert ext2fs_bg_flag_test() to ext2fs_bg_flags_test()
After cleaning up ext2fs_bg_flag_set() and ext2fs_bg_flag_clear(),
we're left with ext2fs_bg_flag_test().  Convert it to
ext2fs_bg_flags_test().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-25 21:42:12 -04:00
Eric Sandeen e633b58ac7 libext2fs: clean up ext2fs_bg_flags_ interfaces
The ext2fs_bg_flag* functions were confusing.

Currently we have this:

void ext2fs_bg_flags_set(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group, __u16 bg_flags);
void ext2fs_bg_flags_clear(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group,__u16 bg_flags);

(_set (unused) sets exactly bg_flags; _clear clears all and ignores bg_flags)

and these, which can twiddle individual bits in bg_flags:

void ext2fs_bg_flag_set(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group, __u16 bg_flag);
void ext2fs_bg_flag_clear(ext2_filsys fs, dgrp_t group, __u16 bg_flag);

A better interface, after the patch below, is just:

ext2fs_bg_flags_zap(fs, group) /* zeros bg_flags */
ext2fs_bg_flags_set(fs, group, flags) /* adds flags to bg_flags */
ext2fs_bg_flags_clear(fs, group, flags) /* clears flags in bg_flags */

and remove the original ext2fs_bg_flags_set / ext2fs_bg_flags_clear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-25 21:41:32 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 95bcea9fc1 Merge branch 'maint' into next
Conflicts:
	configure
	configure.in
	misc/mke2fs.c
2009-10-04 20:40:46 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o e1f0850795 Don't use in-tree header files if using system uuid or blkid libraries
This commit forces the use of the system-provided blkid or uuid header
files if we are using the system-provided blkid or uuid libraries.
This avoids using the in-tree header files with the system libraries.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-10-04 14:45:08 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson 4efbac6fed Convert uses of super->s_*_blocks_count to ext2fs_*_blocks_count()
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 20:46:34 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson a63745e81c Use ext2fs_file_acl_block() instead of using .i_file_acl directly
This provides support for 48-bit file acl blocks.

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 22:29:45 -04:00
Peng Tao 2884d208a3 resize2fs: fix minimum resize size calculation with flex_bg
When flex_bg is on, calculate_minimum_resize_size() should add more meta
blocks for newly added flex_bg.

Addresses-RedHat-Bugzilla: #519131
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 16:21:19 -04:00
Peng Tao 1d8af189bd resize2fs: calculate minimal fs size only once
When running resize2fs -M, no need to recalculate the minimal fs size.

Signed-off-by: "Peng Tao" <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 14:20:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 732c8cd58f Use accessor functions fields for bg_flags in the block group descriptors
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 21:15:12 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson 24a117abd0 Convert to use io_channel_read_blk64() and io_channel_write_blk64()
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-07 21:14:24 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o dc615a21c3 Merge branch 'maint' into next 2009-09-07 17:02:35 -04:00
Valerie Aurora Henson 3346084bea resize2fs: Move everything to new bitmap interface
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-08-22 21:13:37 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 96cdb37e27 resize2fs: If resize2fs fails, tell the user to run e2fsck
If the resize operation fails in the middle of the operation, mark the
filesystem as needing to be checked, and tell the user that they
should run e2fsck -fy on the device.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-11 14:16:39 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 3a4d9869d4 resize2fs: Fix error message so the mountpoint is printed correctly
The resize2fs program was freeing the mountpoint information too
early, so garbage was getting printed instead of the correct
information in an error message.

Addresses-Debian-Bug: #535452

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-02 13:54:22 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o c13351f6c5 Add support for configure --enable-verbose-makecmds
Some people don't want to see the concise "kernel-style" make output.
This configure option allows build engines that want to see the full
set of commands executed by the makefile to get what they want.  Most
people will find this more distracting than useful, unless they need
to debug the Makefiles.

(It is not necessary to rerun configure to enable this verbose make
output temprarily; if a developer wants to do a quick debug of a
directory's makefile, he or she can simply edit the definition of the
$(E) and $(Q) variables in the Makefile; instructions can be found in
the MCONFIG file which is included in at the beginning of every
Makefile.)

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-02 00:11:17 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o a6a1c0815c Fix Makefile dependencies for libcom_err
The e2fsprogs makefiles were using the same Makefile variable
LIBCOM_ERR for the link-line arguments as well as the dependencies.
Since LIBCOM_ERR can now include non-file arguments such as
"-lpthread", we need to use a separate DEPLIBCOM_ERR variable that
only has build file dependencies.

Do the same thing for STATIC_LIBCOM_ERR and PROFILED_LIBCOM_ERR.

Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #2813809

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-07-01 22:06:51 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 8a6ede8b7a resize2fs: update sb journal backup if journal was moved
This was reported in Fedora, since the livecd creator does
a lot of resizing.

If we've moved the journal blocks during resize (more likely now,
due to the journal being in the middle) the backup blocks in the
superblock don't get updated, and a subsequent e2fsck will find
issues:

e2fsck 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)
Backing up journal inode block information.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/mnt/test/img: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/mnt/test/img: 11/16000 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 17789/38400 blocks

This can be shown in a simple test:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=1 count=0 seek=3000M
# mke2fs -t ext4 -F img
# resize2fs img 150M
# e2fsck -f img

(thanks to the Fedora reporter Mads Kiilerich for the testcase!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506105#c2)

So, update the backup journal in the superblock before resize2fs exits.

Addresses-RedHat-Bugzilla: #505339

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-18 07:47:54 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o e2ca097fc6 resize2fs: fix miscellaneous memory leaks
Fix various memory leaks which were discovered using valgrind.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-15 03:54:31 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 4f858546e1 Update man pages to include ext4 in the synposis, instead of just "ext2/ext3"
The e2fsprogs programs have historically just said that they operate
on ext2 and ext3 file system in their man pages.  Update them to say
that they also operate on ext4 file systems.

Addresses-Launchpad-bug: #381854

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-30 12:34:28 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 0d04d88a8d resize2fs: don't try to resize below calculated minimum
Without a force flag, don't allow resize2fs to even start resizing
below what it thinks the minimum safe value is.

This may stop resizes which could otherwise proceed with a bit
of space still left, but seems like a reasonably safe thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25 22:40:49 -04:00
Eric Sandeen 69f7c80eaf resize2fs: fix minimum size calculations
The extra padding added to the minimum size calculations:

        /*
         * We need to reserve a few extra blocks if extents are
         * enabled, in case we need to grow the extent tree.  The more
         * we shrink the file system, the more space we need.
         */
        if (fs->super->s_feature_incompat & EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS)
                blks_needed += (fs->super->s_blocks_count - blks_needed)/500;

can go quite wrong if we've already added up more "blks_needed"
than our current size, and the above subtraction wraps.  This can
easily happen for a filesystem which is almost completely full.

In this case, just return the current fs size as the minimum and
be done with it.

With this fix we could probably call calculate_minimum_resize_size()
for each resize2fs invocation and refuse to resize smaller than that?

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-05-25 22:40:35 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o fb72556af8 resize2fs: Print a warning message if the ftruncate system call fails
Resize2fs will attempt to truncate an image file of a filesystem down
to size for the convenience of the system administrator.  If the
truncate operation fails, print a warning message.  This also avoids a
gcc warning message.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-22 15:10:36 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 2d7361ebfa resize2fs: Fix corruption bug impacting ext4 filesystems with uninit_bg
Due to a fencepost bug, when skipping a block group whose block bitmap
was uninitialized (and hence could not contain any blocks eligible for
relaocation), the block immediately following the block group wasn't
checked as well.  If it was in use and required relocation, it
wouldn't get properly relocated, with the result that an inode using
such a block would end up, post resize, with a pointer to a block now
outside the bounds of the filesystem.

This commit fixes this fencepost error.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-18 22:42:13 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o c09043f1ab resize2fs: Fix data corruption bug when shrinking the inode table for ext4
If we need to shrink the inode table, we need to make sure the inodes
contained in the part of the inode table we are vacating don't get
reused as part of the filesystem shrink operation.  This wasn't a
problem with ext3 filesystems, since the inode table was located in
the block group that was going away, so that location was not eligible
for reallocation.

However with ext4 filesystems with flex_bg enabled, it's possible for
a portion of the inode table in the last flex_bg group to be
deallocated, but in a part of the filesystem which could be used as
data blocks.  So we must mark those blocks as reserved to prevent
their reuse, and adjust the minimum filesystem size calculation to
assure that we don't shrink a filesystem too small for the resize
operation to succeed.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-18 22:32:03 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o 1ac84a948d resize2fs: Fix data corruption bug when growing an ext4 filesystem off-line
When allocating a new set of block group metadata as part of growing
the filesystem, the resize2fs code assumes that the bitmap and inode
table blocks are in their own block group; an assumption which is
changed by the flex_bg feature.  This commit works around the problem
by temporarily turning off flex_bg while allocating the new block
group metadata, to avoid potentially overwriting previously allocated
data blocks.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-04-18 13:31:54 -04:00
Jim Meyering 45e338f533 remove useless if-before-free tests
In case you're wondering about whether this change is safe from a
portability standpoint, fear not.  This has been beaten to death
in other forums.  Here are a few threads:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/74187
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/12712
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/98144
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/13092

There has been debate about whether it's a good idea from a
performance standpoint, too, but imho you'll have a hard time
finding an instance where this sort of change induces a
measurable performance penalty.  If you do, please let me know.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-03-08 20:37:12 -04:00