Subject: [PATCH v2] xfs: Initialize all quota inodes to be NULLFSINO

Ben Myers bpm at sgi.com
Mon Jul 22 14:08:44 CDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 05:32:55PM -0500, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Change from previous version:
>  - Added the additional comments that Dave wanted.
> 
> -------------
> mkfs doesn't initialize the quota inodes to NULLFSINO as it does for the
> other internal inodes. This leads to two in-core values (0 and NULLFSINO)
> to be checked against, to make sure if a quota inode is valid.
> 
> Solve that problem by initializing the in-core values of all quotaino
> values to NULLFSINO if they are 0 in the disk.
> 
> Note that these values are not written back to on-disk superblock unless
> some quota is enabled on the filesystem. Even in that case sb_pquotino is
> written to disk only if the on-disk superblock supports pquotino
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan at us.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>

Applied.



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