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ext4: Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

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This flag is simply a generic "this is a crash/burn test filesystem"
marker.  If it is set, then filesystem code which is "in development"
will be allowed to mount the filesystem.  Filesystem code which is not
considered ready for prime-time will check for this flag, and if it is
not set, it will refuse to touch the filesystem.

As we start rolling ext4 out to distro's like Fedora, et. al, this makes
it less likely that a user might accidentally start using ext4 on a
production filesystem; a bad thing, since that will essentially make it
be unfsckable until e2fsprogs catches up.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
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Theodore Tso
2008-02-10 01:11:44 -05:00
committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 26346ff681
commit 469108ff3d
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@ -489,6 +489,13 @@ do { \
#define EXT4_ERROR_FS 0x0002 /* Errors detected */
#define EXT4_ORPHAN_FS 0x0004 /* Orphans being recovered */
/*
* Misc. filesystem flags
*/
#define EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH 0x0001 /* Signed dirhash in use */
#define EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH 0x0002 /* Unsigned dirhash in use */
#define EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS 0x0004 /* to test development code */
/*
* Mount flags
*/