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* fs: Remove ext3 filesystem driverJan Kara2015-07-231-206/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The functionality of ext3 is fully supported by ext4 driver. Major distributions (SUSE, RedHat) already use ext4 driver to handle ext3 filesystems for quite some time. There is some ugliness in mm resulting from jbd cleaning buffers in a dirty page without cleaning page dirty bit and also support for buffer bouncing in the block layer when stable pages are required is there only because of jbd. So let's remove the ext3 driver. This saves us some 28k lines of duplicated code. Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount optionEric Sandeen2013-07-311-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's device number changes, the filesystem won't mount. And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number changes aren't unusual. The current mechanism to update the journal location is by passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle; it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact. Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would help, since then we can do i.e. # mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ... and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here: # losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile # mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0 # mkfs.ext3 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1 Change the journal device number: # losetup -d /dev/loop0 # losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile And today it will fail: # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so # dmesg | tail -n 1 [17343.240702] EXT3-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path: # mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test # (which does update the encoded device number, incidentally): # umount /dev/sdb1 # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device" dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Journal device: 0x0701 But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and it'll always work: # mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test # So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID), we can mount. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 defaultStefan Hajnoczi2012-04-111-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 00eacd6 ("ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1") changed the default barrier mount option for ext3. The documentation needs to be updated, so this patch does that. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: remove deprecated oldallocLukas Czerner2011-08-171-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | For a long time now orlov is the default block allocator in the ext3. It performs better than the old one and no one seems to claim otherwise so we can safely drop it and make oldalloc and orlov mount option deprecated. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3.txt: update the links in the section "useful links" to the latest onesWang Sheng-Hui2011-07-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt, the section "useful links" provides two links which link to ibm developerworks articles. While the second one can be redirected to the latest one, the first one http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html fails to be redirected. Update the 2 links to the latest ones. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3/ext4 Documentation: remove bh/nobh since it has been deprecatedLukas Czerner2011-06-251-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Bh and nobh mount option has been deprecated in ext4 (206f7ab4f49a2021fcb8687f25395be77711ddee) and in ext3 (4c4d3901225518ed1a4c938ba15ba09842a00770) so remove those options from documentation. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: make barrier options consistent with ext4Eric Sandeen2010-05-211-2/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ext4 was updated to accept barrier/nobarrier mount options in addition to the older barrier=0/1. The barrier story is complex enough, we should help people by making the options the same at least, even if the defaults are different. This patch allows the barrier/nobarrier mount options for ext3, while keeping nobarrier the default. It also unconditionally displays barrier status in show_options, and prints a message at mount time if barriers are not enabled, just as ext4 does. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"Eric Sandeen2009-12-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Users on the list recently complained about differences across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay. In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make that an alias for ext3. Also show this status in /proc/mounts Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount optionsJan Kara2009-10-131-4/+12
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* trivial: document ext3 semantics of 'ro' option a bit betterPavel Machek2009-03-301-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | ext3 has quite unexpected semantics or "ro" and defaults are not what they are documented to be, due to mkfs override. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* trivial: fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentationJody McIntyre2009-03-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | Trivial patch to fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ext3: add an option to control error handling on file dataHidehiro Kawai2008-10-201-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently. Because most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't notice the IO error. It's scary for mission critical systems. On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable. So this patch introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data. If you mount a ext3 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data write error. If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just call printk(). data_err=ignore is the default. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/FD Cami2008-10-161-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ urls, update to new ones when necessary, delete references otherwise. There are still instances of that living in: Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches Documentation/ko_KR/HOWTO Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* documentation/ext3: grammar fixesShaun Zinck2007-10-201-7/+7
| | | | | | | | Fix some grammar in the explanation of the Journal Block Device layer. Signed-off-by: Shaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" optionBadari Pulavarty2006-06-261-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads. This option is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: fix documentation of online resizingTore Anderson2006-01-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Undocument the non-working resize= mount option in ext3, and add some references to the ext2resize package instead, which appears to be the only proper way of doing online resizing of ext3 filesystems. Signed-off-by: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for ↵Jesper Juhl2006-01-101-88/+90
| | | | | | | | | | | filesystems/ext3.txt Spelling fixes, formating changes and corrections for Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: external journal device as a mount optionJohann Lombardi2006-01-081-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal device to be specified. The syntax is as follows: # mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ... where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32. Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ext3: fix mount options documentationAndreas Gruenbacher2005-12-121-13/+13
| | | | | | | | Reported by Jacques de Mer and Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+183
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!