On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:22:46PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Since the beginning of the uninit_bg feature, the kernel[1] and > e2fsck[2] have always been careful to detect the presence of the > BLOCK_UNINIT flag, and compute a block bitmap with any group metadata > blocks marked in that bitmap. With that in mind, I think it's safe to > say that this is a design feature of uninit_bg. > > Now that we've trained libext2fs to have this same behavior whenever > it's loading a block bitmap, we no longer need to unset BLOCK_UNINIT > for a group that contains only its own group metadata -- kernel, > e2fsck, and e2fsprogs will handle this correctly. > > [1] kernel git 717d50e4971b81b96c0199c91cdf0039a8cb181a > "Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups" > [2] e2fsprogs git f5fa20078bfc05b554294fe9c5505375d7913e8c > "Add support for EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_LAZY_BG" > > Reported-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted -- 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
