ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
It's always been a hassle that if an external journal's
device number changes, the filesystem won't mount.
And since boot-time enumeration can change, device number
changes aren't unusual.
The current mechanism to update the journal location is by
passing in a mount option w/ a new devnum, but that's a hassle;
it's a manual approach, fixing things after the fact.
Adding a mount option, "-o journal_path=/dev/$DEVICE" would
help, since then we can do i.e.
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/$JOURNAL_LABEL ...
and it'll mount even if the devnum has changed, as shown here:
# losetup /dev/loop0 journalfile
# mke2fs -L mylabel-journal -O journal_dev /dev/loop0
# mkfs.ext4 -L mylabel -J device=/dev/loop0 /dev/sdb1
Change the journal device number:
# losetup -d /dev/loop0
# losetup /dev/loop1 journalfile
And today it will fail:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
# dmesg | tail -n 1
[17343.240702] EXT4-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't read superblock of external journal
But with this new mount option, we can specify the new path:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/loop1 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
(which does update the encoded device number, incidentally):
# umount /dev/sdb1
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep "Journal device"
dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Journal device: 0x0701
But best of all we can just always mount by journal-path, and
it'll always work:
# mount -o journal_path=/dev/disk/by-label/mylabel-journal /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
#
So the journal_path option can be specified in fstab, and as long as
the disk is available somewhere, and findable by label (or by UUID),
we can mount.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index b59373b..4233714 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1134,8 +1134,8 @@
Opt_nouid32, Opt_debug, Opt_removed,
Opt_user_xattr, Opt_nouser_xattr, Opt_acl, Opt_noacl,
Opt_auto_da_alloc, Opt_noauto_da_alloc, Opt_noload,
- Opt_commit, Opt_min_batch_time, Opt_max_batch_time,
- Opt_journal_dev, Opt_journal_checksum, Opt_journal_async_commit,
+ Opt_commit, Opt_min_batch_time, Opt_max_batch_time, Opt_journal_dev,
+ Opt_journal_path, Opt_journal_checksum, Opt_journal_async_commit,
Opt_abort, Opt_data_journal, Opt_data_ordered, Opt_data_writeback,
Opt_data_err_abort, Opt_data_err_ignore,
Opt_usrjquota, Opt_grpjquota, Opt_offusrjquota, Opt_offgrpjquota,
@@ -1179,6 +1179,7 @@
{Opt_min_batch_time, "min_batch_time=%u"},
{Opt_max_batch_time, "max_batch_time=%u"},
{Opt_journal_dev, "journal_dev=%u"},
+ {Opt_journal_path, "journal_path=%s"},
{Opt_journal_checksum, "journal_checksum"},
{Opt_journal_async_commit, "journal_async_commit"},
{Opt_abort, "abort"},
@@ -1338,6 +1339,7 @@
#define MOPT_NO_EXT2 0x0100
#define MOPT_NO_EXT3 0x0200
#define MOPT_EXT4_ONLY (MOPT_NO_EXT2 | MOPT_NO_EXT3)
+#define MOPT_STRING 0x0400
static const struct mount_opts {
int token;
@@ -1387,6 +1389,7 @@
{Opt_resuid, 0, MOPT_GTE0},
{Opt_resgid, 0, MOPT_GTE0},
{Opt_journal_dev, 0, MOPT_GTE0},
+ {Opt_journal_path, 0, MOPT_STRING},
{Opt_journal_ioprio, 0, MOPT_GTE0},
{Opt_data_journal, EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA, MOPT_NO_EXT2 | MOPT_DATAJ},
{Opt_data_ordered, EXT4_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA, MOPT_NO_EXT2 | MOPT_DATAJ},
@@ -1480,7 +1483,7 @@
return -1;
}
- if (args->from && match_int(args, &arg))
+ if (args->from && !(m->flags & MOPT_STRING) && match_int(args, &arg))
return -1;
if (args->from && (m->flags & MOPT_GTE0) && (arg < 0))
return -1;
@@ -1544,6 +1547,44 @@
return -1;
}
*journal_devnum = arg;
+ } else if (token == Opt_journal_path) {
+ char *journal_path;
+ struct inode *journal_inode;
+ struct path path;
+ int error;
+
+ if (is_remount) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
+ "Cannot specify journal on remount");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ journal_path = match_strdup(&args[0]);
+ if (!journal_path) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: could not dup "
+ "journal device string");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ error = kern_path(journal_path, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
+ if (error) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: could not find "
+ "journal device path: error %d", error);
+ kfree(journal_path);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ journal_inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
+ if (!S_ISBLK(journal_inode->i_mode)) {
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "error: journal path %s "
+ "is not a block device", journal_path);
+ path_put(&path);
+ kfree(journal_path);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ *journal_devnum = new_encode_dev(journal_inode->i_rdev);
+ path_put(&path);
+ kfree(journal_path);
} else if (token == Opt_journal_ioprio) {
if (arg > 7) {
ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Invalid journal IO priority"