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authorAneesh Kumar K.V2008-04-29 14:11:12 +0200
committerTheodore Ts'o2008-04-29 14:11:12 +0200
commite65187e6d0d541f992e684f88a7e090dcff1aac8 (patch)
treebf8af79f6f78596b8ca0f9affe94586f3a74f7eb /fs/ext4/namei.c
parentext4: Fix fallocate error path (diff)
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ext4: Enable extent format for symlinks.
This patch enables extent-formatted normal symlinks. Using extents format allows a symlink to refer to a block number larger than 2^32 on large filesystems. We still don't enable extent format for fast symlinks, which are contained in the inode itself. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/namei.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 28aa2ed4297e..68611945687d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2217,6 +2217,8 @@ 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;