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authorHarshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>2020-11-05 19:58:50 -0800
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2020-11-06 23:01:01 -0500
commita44ad6835da52fdf4df2e482f45a167336555121 (patch)
tree176af5bf4223b6e1a47b1817fa06fa439c3d0613 /Documentation
parent7067b2619017d51e71686ca9756b454de0e5826a (diff)
ext4: describe fast_commit feature flags
Fast commit feature has flags in the file system as well in JBD2. The meaning of fast commit feature flags can get confusing. Update docs and code to add more documentation about it. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201106035911.1942128-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst7
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst
index 805a1e9ea3a5..849d5b119eb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/journal.rst
@@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ which is 1024 bytes long:
- s\_padding2
-
* - 0x54
+ - \_\_be32
+ - s\_num\_fc\_blocks
+ - Number of fast commit blocks in the journal.
+ * - 0x58
- \_\_u32
- s\_padding[42]
-
@@ -310,6 +314,8 @@ The journal incompat features are any combination of the following:
- This journal uses v3 of the checksum on-disk format. This is the same as
v2, but the journal block tag size is fixed regardless of the size of
block numbers. (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_CSUM\_V3)
+ * - 0x20
+ - Journal has fast commit blocks. (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT)
.. _jbd2_checksum_type:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
index 93e55d7c1d40..2eb1ab20498d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst
@@ -596,6 +596,13 @@ following:
- Sparse Super Block, v2. If this flag is set, the SB field s\_backup\_bgs
points to the two block groups that contain backup superblocks
(COMPAT\_SPARSE\_SUPER2).
+ * - 0x400
+ - Fast commits supported. Although fast commits blocks are
+ backward incompatible, fast commit blocks are not always
+ present in the journal. If fast commit blocks are present in
+ the journal, JBD2 incompat feature
+ (JBD2\_FEATURE\_INCOMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT) gets
+ set (COMPAT\_FAST\_COMMIT).
.. _super_incompat: