On Jan 09, 2008 22:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > The stipe size used during block allocation is calculated as below. > a) if we specify a stripe=<value> option using mount time. Use that value. > b) if not use the value specified in super block. > b) If the value specfied at mount time is greater than blocks per group use > the value specified ini the super block. What if the value on disk is also bad? I'd add (after the second 'b' :-): d) if s_stripe is still > s_blocks_per_group try s_raid_stride e) if s_stripe is still > s_blocks_per_group use 0 > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/super.c | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c > index db1edc8..10330eb 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/super.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c > @@ -2136,6 +2136,16 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) > sbi->s_rsv_window_head.rsv_alloc_hit = 0; > sbi->s_rsv_window_head.rsv_goal_size = 0; > ext4_rsv_window_add(sb, &sbi->s_rsv_window_head); > + /* > + * set the stripe size. If we have specified it via mount option, then > + * use the mount option value. If the value specified at mount time is > + * greater than the blocks per group use the super block value. > + * Allocator needs it be less than blocks per group. > + */ > + if (!sbi->s_stripe || > + sbi->s_stripe >= sbi->s_blocks_per_group) { Please fix alignment to be just after '(' on previous line. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html