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[1/3] mke2fs: indicate bigalloc feature explicity when cluster-size is enabled

Message ID 1358068095-9034-1-git-send-email-wenqing.lz@taobao.com
State Accepted, archived
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Zheng Liu Jan. 13, 2013, 9:08 a.m. UTC 
From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>

When cluster-size is enabled without bigalloc feature, mke2fs will ignore this
argument silently.  But user might think bigalloc feature has been enabled
unless they use 'stats' command to check it in debugfs.  So now we ask user
to set bigalloc feature explicity when cluster-size is enabled.  This can
make sure that users understand what they are doing because bigalloc might
impact the performance for some workloads.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
---
 misc/mke2fs.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Theodore Ts'o Jan. 14, 2013, 8:28 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:08:13PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
> 
> When cluster-size is enabled without bigalloc feature, mke2fs will ignore this
> argument silently.  But user might think bigalloc feature has been enabled
> unless they use 'stats' command to check it in debugfs.  So now we ask user
> to set bigalloc feature explicity when cluster-size is enabled.  This can
> make sure that users understand what they are doing because bigalloc might
> impact the performance for some workloads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index a288147..bf4d7a2 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -1915,8 +1915,14 @@  profile_error:
 							    blocksize*16);
 		fs_param.s_log_cluster_size =
 			int_log2(cluster_size >> EXT2_MIN_CLUSTER_LOG_SIZE);
-	} else
+	} else if (cluster_size) {
+		com_err(program_name, EINVAL,
+			_("while setting clustersize; You need to enable "
+			  "bigalloc feature explicity"));
+		exit(1);
+	} else {
 		fs_param.s_log_cluster_size = fs_param.s_log_block_size;
+	}
 
 	if (inode_ratio == 0) {
 		inode_ratio = get_int_from_profile(fs_types, "inode_ratio",