Ted, the LAZY_BG feature was originally written to test large filesystems and avoid the need to format (or even allocate, if sparse) large parts of the inode table and bitmaps. To make the feature COMPAT the bg_free_blocks_count and bg_free_inodes_count are initialized to zero, and the kernel will skip these groups entirely without checking the bitmap.
For the GDT_CSUM feature, we are using the LAZY_BG feature to not initialize the bitmaps and inode table. However, setting the bg_free_*_count to zero is troublesome because it means we always need to check the GDT_CSUM feature flag to know whether a group actually has free blocks/inodes, and e2fsck is also getting confused about the number of free blocks/inodes in the groups and filesystem (we have to have a double accounting for "real" free blocks and "uninitialized" free blocks. What do you think for the GDT_CSUM feature that we initialize the group descriptors as if the group had actually been formatted? I think our use of the LAZY_BG feature is actually misguided - while they share some components (e.g. UNINIT flags, mke2fs code, some e2fsck code), since the GDT_CSUM feature is RO_COMPAT there isn't much reason to even enable LAZY_BG at format time... We have to replace all uses of bg_free_*_count with the below macros: +/* Macro-instructions used to calculate Free inodes and blocks count. */ +#define EXT3_BG_INODES_FREE(sb,gr,gdp) ((EXT3_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, \ + EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM) && \ + (gdp)->bg_flags & \ + cpu_to_le16(EXT3_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) ? \ + EXT3_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) : \ + le16_to_cpu((gdp)->bg_itable_unused) + \ + le16_to_cpu((gdp)->bg_free_inodes_count)) +#define EXT3_BG_BLOCKS_FREE(sb,gr,gdp) ((EXT3_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, \ + EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM) && \ + (gdp)->bg_flags & \ + cpu_to_le16(EXT3_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) ? \ + ext3_free_blocks_after_init(sb,gr,gdp) :\ + le16_to_cpu((gdp)->bg_free_blocks_count)) Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
