This patch enable extent format for normal symlink. Extent format enables to refere file system blocks > 32 bits. Enabling extent format for symlink enables to have symlink block beyond 2**32 blocks. We still don't enable extent format for fast symlink. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 ++-- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index 78d1094..1462189 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -842,8 +842,8 @@ got: goto fail_free_drop; } if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) { - /* set extent flag only for diretory and file */ - if (S_ISDIR(mode) || S_ISREG(mode)) { + /* set extent flag only for diretory, file and normal symlink*/ + if (S_ISDIR(mode) || S_ISREG(mode) || S_ISLNK(mode)) { EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags |= EXT4_EXTENTS_FL; ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, inode); err = ext4_update_incompat_feature(handle, sb, diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index da942bc..63c33e0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2222,6 +2222,8 @@ retry: goto out_stop; } } else { + /* clear the extent format for fast symlink */ + EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags &= ~EXT4_EXTENTS_FL; inode->i_op = &ext4_fast_symlink_inode_operations; memcpy((char*)&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data,symname,l); inode->i_size = l-1; -- 1.5.4.3.325.g6d216.dirty -- 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