Blame SOURCES/0268-xfs-accept-filesystem-with-sparse-inodes.patch

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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 14:55:55 -0500
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Subject: [PATCH] xfs: accept filesystem with sparse inodes
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The sparse inode metadata format became a mkfs.xfs default in
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xfsprogs-4.16.0, and such filesystems are now rejected by grub as
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containing an incompatible feature.
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In essence, this feature allows xfs to allocate inodes into fragmented
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freespace.  (Without this feature, if xfs could not allocate contiguous
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space for 64 new inodes, inode creation would fail.)
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In practice, the disk format change is restricted to the inode btree,
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which as far as I can tell is not used by grub.  If all you're doing
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today is parsing a directory, reading an inode number, and converting
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that inode number to a disk location, then ignoring this feature
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should be fine, so I've added it to XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SUPPORTED
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I did some brief testing of this patch by hacking up the regression
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tests to completely fragment freespace on the test xfs filesystem, and
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then write a large-ish number of inodes to consume any existing
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contiguous 64-inode chunk.  This way any files the grub tests add and
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traverse would be in such a fragmented inode allocation.  Tests passed,
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but I'm not sure how to cleanly integrate that into the test harness.
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Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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---
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 grub-core/fs/xfs.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
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 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/grub-core/fs/xfs.c b/grub-core/fs/xfs.c
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index 72492915533..852155b1bf3 100644
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--- a/grub-core/fs/xfs.c
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+++ b/grub-core/fs/xfs.c
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@@ -76,8 +76,22 @@ GRUB_MOD_LICENSE ("GPLv3+");
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 /* incompat feature flags */
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 #define XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_FTYPE      (1 << 0)        /* filetype in dirent */
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+#define XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SPINODES   (1 << 1)        /* sparse inode chunks */
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+#define XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_META_UUID  (1 << 2)        /* metadata UUID */
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+
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+/*
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+ * Directory entries with ftype are explicitly handled by grub code.
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+ *
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+ * We do not currently verify metadata UUID, so it is safe to read filesystems
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+ * with the XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_META_UUID feature.
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+ *
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+ * We do not currently read the inode btrees, so it is safe to read filesystems
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+ * with the XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SPINODES feature.
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+ */
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 #define XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SUPPORTED \
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-	(XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_FTYPE)
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+	(XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_FTYPE | \
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+	 XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_SPINODES | \
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+	 XFS_SB_FEAT_INCOMPAT_META_UUID)
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 struct grub_xfs_sblock
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 {