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2Ext4 Filesystem
3===============
4
c9f3f2d8 5Ext4 is an advanced level of the ext3 filesystem which incorporates
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6scalability and reliability enhancements for supporting large filesystems
7(64 bit) in keeping with increasing disk capacities and state-of-the-art
8feature requirements.
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10Mailing list: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
11Web site: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org
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141. Quick usage instructions:
15===========================
16
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17Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
18 found at the ext4 wiki site at the URL:
19 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto
20
93e3270c 21 - Compile and install the latest version of e2fsprogs (as of this
22359f57 22 writing version 1.41.3) from:
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24 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406
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26 or
27
3bdadc86 28 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/
fc513a33 29
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30 or grab the latest git repository from:
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32 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
33
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34 - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file
35 that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If
36 you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system,
37 you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs
38 1.41.x.
39
03010a33 40 - Create a new filesystem using the ext4 filesystem type:
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03010a33 42 # mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/hda1
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22359f57 44 Or to configure an existing ext3 filesystem to support extents:
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22359f57 46 # tune2fs -O extents /dev/hda1
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48 If the filesystem was created with 128 byte inodes, it can be
49 converted to use 256 byte for greater efficiency via:
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93e3270c 51 # tune2fs -I 256 /dev/hda1
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03010a33 53 (Note: we currently do not have tools to convert an ext4
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54 filesystem back to ext3; so please do not do try this on production
55 filesystems.)
fc513a33 56
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57 - Mounting:
58
03010a33 59 # mount -t ext4 /dev/hda1 /wherever
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61 - When comparing performance with other filesystems, it's always
62 important to try multiple workloads; very often a subtle change in a
63 workload parameter can completely change the ranking of which
64 filesystems do well compared to others. When comparing versus ext3,
65 note that ext4 enables write barriers by default, while ext3 does
66 not enable write barriers by default. So it is useful to use
67 explicitly specify whether barriers are enabled or not when via the
68 '-o barriers=[0|1]' mount option for both ext3 and ext4 filesystems
69 for a fair comparison. When tuning ext3 for best benchmark numbers,
70 it is often worthwhile to try changing the data journaling mode; '-o
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71 data=writeback' can be faster for some workloads. (Note however that
72 running mounted with data=writeback can potentially leave stale data
73 exposed in recently written files in case of an unclean shutdown,
74 which could be a security exposure in some situations.) Configuring
75 the filesystem with a large journal can also be helpful for
76 metadata-intensive workloads.
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782. Features
79===========
80
812.1 Currently available
82
93e3270c 83* ability to use filesystems > 16TB (e2fsprogs support not available yet)
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84* extent format reduces metadata overhead (RAM, IO for access, transactions)
85* extent format more robust in face of on-disk corruption due to magics,
8e1a4857 86* internal redundancy in tree
49f1487b 87* improved file allocation (multi-block alloc)
722bde68 88* lift 32000 subdirectory limit imposed by i_links_count[1]
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89* nsec timestamps for mtime, atime, ctime, create time
90* inode version field on disk (NFSv4, Lustre)
91* reduced e2fsck time via uninit_bg feature
92* journal checksumming for robustness, performance
93* persistent file preallocation (e.g for streaming media, databases)
94* ability to pack bitmaps and inode tables into larger virtual groups via the
95 flex_bg feature
96* large file support
98bfa344 97* inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg
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98* delayed allocation
99* large block (up to pagesize) support
98bfa344 100* efficient new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4 (avoid using buffer head to force
49f1487b 101 the ordering)
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103[1] Filesystems with a block size of 1k may see a limit imposed by the
104directory hash tree having a maximum depth of two.
105
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107
98bfa344 108* online defrag (patches available but not well tested)
25985edc 109* reduced mke2fs time via lazy itable initialization in conjunction with
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110 the uninit_bg feature (capability to do this is available in e2fsprogs
111 but a kernel thread to do lazy zeroing of unused inode table blocks
112 after filesystem is first mounted is required for safety)
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114There are several others under discussion, whether they all make it in is
115partly a function of how much time everyone has to work on them. Features like
116metadata checksumming have been discussed and planned for a bit but no patches
117exist yet so I'm not sure they're in the near-term roadmap.
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119The big performance win will come with mballoc, delalloc and flex_bg
120grouping of bitmaps and inode tables. Some test results available here:
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122 - http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20080818-ffsb/ffsb-write-2.6.27-rc1.html
123 - http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20080818-ffsb/ffsb-readwrite-2.6.27-rc1.html
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1253. Options
126==========
127
128When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
129(*) == default
130
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131ro Mount filesystem read only. Note that ext4 will
132 replay the journal (and thus write to the
133 partition) even when mounted "read only". The
134 mount options "ro,noload" can be used to prevent
135 writes to the filesystem.
136
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137journal_checksum Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
138 This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
139 kernel to detect corruption in the kernel. It is a
140 compatible change and will be ignored by older kernels.
141
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142journal_async_commit Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
143 for descriptor blocks. If enabled older kernels cannot
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144 mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
145 internally.
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ad4eec61 147journal_path=path
fc513a33 148journal_dev=devnum When the external journal device's major/minor numbers
ad4eec61 149 have changed, these options allow the user to specify
fc513a33 150 the new journal location. The journal device is
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151 identified through either its new major/minor numbers
152 encoded in devnum, or via a path to the device.
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154norecovery Don't load the journal on mounting. Note that
155noload if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly,
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156 skipping the journal replay will lead to the
157 filesystem containing inconsistencies that can
158 lead to any number of problems.
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160data=journal All data are committed into the journal prior to being
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161 written into the main file system. Enabling
162 this mode will disable delayed allocation and
163 O_DIRECT support.
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165data=ordered (*) All data are forced directly out to the main file
166 system prior to its metadata being committed to the
167 journal.
168
169data=writeback Data ordering is not preserved, data may be written
170 into the main file system after its metadata has been
171 committed to the journal.
172
173commit=nrsec (*) Ext4 can be told to sync all its data and metadata
174 every 'nrsec' seconds. The default value is 5 seconds.
175 This means that if you lose your power, you will lose
176 as much as the latest 5 seconds of work (your
177 filesystem will not be damaged though, thanks to the
178 journaling). This default value (or any low value)
179 will hurt performance, but it's good for data-safety.
180 Setting it to 0 will have the same effect as leaving
181 it at the default (5 seconds).
182 Setting it to very large values will improve
183 performance.
184
571640ca 185barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in
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186barrier(*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables.
187nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support
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188 barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier
189 write, it will disable again with a warning.
190 Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering
191 of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches
192 safe to use, at some performance penalty. If
193 your disks are battery-backed in one way or another,
194 disabling barriers may safely improve performance.
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195 The mount options "barrier" and "nobarrier" can
196 also be used to enable or disable barriers, for
197 consistency with other ext4 mount options.
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6d3b82f2 199inode_readahead_blks=n This tuning parameter controls the maximum
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200 number of inode table blocks that ext4's inode
201 table readahead algorithm will pre-read into
202 the buffer cache. The default value is 32 blocks.
203
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204nouser_xattr Disables Extended User Attributes. See the
205 attr(5) manual page and http://acl.bestbits.at/
206 for more information about extended attributes.
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208noacl This option disables POSIX Access Control List
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209 support. If ACL support is enabled in the kernel
210 configuration (CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL), ACL is
211 enabled by default on mount. See the acl(5) manual
212 page and http://acl.bestbits.at/ for more information
213 about acl.
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215bsddf (*) Make 'df' act like BSD.
216minixdf Make 'df' act like Minix.
217
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218debug Extra debugging information is sent to syslog.
219
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220abort Simulate the effects of calling ext4_abort() for
221 debugging purposes. This is normally used while
222 remounting a filesystem which is already mounted.
223
8e1a4857 224errors=remount-ro Remount the filesystem read-only on an error.
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225errors=continue Keep going on a filesystem error.
226errors=panic Panic and halt the machine if an error occurs.
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227 (These mount options override the errors behavior
228 specified in the superblock, which can be configured
229 using tune2fs)
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231data_err=ignore(*) Just print an error message if an error occurs
232 in a file data buffer in ordered mode.
233data_err=abort Abort the journal if an error occurs in a file
234 data buffer in ordered mode.
235
d5d4b30f 236grpid New objects have the group ID of their parent.
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237bsdgroups
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239nogrpid (*) New objects have the group ID of their creator.
240sysvgroups
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242resgid=n The group ID which may use the reserved blocks.
243
244resuid=n The user ID which may use the reserved blocks.
245
246sb=n Use alternate superblock at this location.
247
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248quota These options are ignored by the filesystem. They
249noquota are used only by quota tools to recognize volumes
250grpquota where quota should be turned on. See documentation
251usrquota in the quota-tools package for more details
252 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
253
254jqfmt=<quota type> These options tell filesystem details about quota
255usrjquota=<file> so that quota information can be properly updated
256grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above
257 quota options. See documentation in the quota-tools
258 package for more details
259 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota).
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261stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
262 to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
263 systems this should be the number of data
264 disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks.
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266delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4
267 writes out the block(s) in question. This
268 allows ext4 to better allocation decisions
269 more efficiently.
270nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated
271 when the data is copied from userspace to the
272 page cache, either via the write(2) system call
273 or when an mmap'ed page which was previously
274 unallocated is written for the first time.
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276max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
277 additional filesystem operations to be batch
278 together with a synchronous write operation.
279 Since a synchronous write operation is going to
280 force a commit and then a wait for the I/O
281 complete, it doesn't cost much, and can be a
282 huge throughput win, we wait for a small amount
283 of time to see if any other transactions can
284 piggyback on the synchronous write. The
285 algorithm used is designed to automatically tune
286 for the speed of the disk, by measuring the
287 amount of time (on average) that it takes to
288 finish committing a transaction. Call this time
289 the "commit time". If the time that the
19f59460 290 transaction has been running is less than the
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291 commit time, ext4 will try sleeping for the
292 commit time to see if other operations will join
293 the transaction. The commit time is capped by
294 the max_batch_time, which defaults to 15000us
295 (15ms). This optimization can be turned off
296 entirely by setting max_batch_time to 0.
297
298min_batch_time=usec This parameter sets the commit time (as
299 described above) to be at least min_batch_time.
300 It defaults to zero microseconds. Increasing
301 this parameter may improve the throughput of
302 multi-threaded, synchronous workloads on very
303 fast disks, at the cost of increasing latency.
304
b3881f74 305journal_ioprio=prio The I/O priority (from 0 to 7, where 0 is the
40e47125 306 highest priority) which should be used for I/O
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307 operations submitted by kjournald2 during a
308 commit operation. This defaults to 3, which is
309 a slightly higher priority than the default I/O
310 priority.
311
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312auto_da_alloc(*) Many broken applications don't use fsync() when
313noauto_da_alloc replacing existing files via patterns such as
314 fd = open("foo.new")/write(fd,..)/close(fd)/
315 rename("foo.new", "foo"), or worse yet,
316 fd = open("foo", O_TRUNC)/write(fd,..)/close(fd).
317 If auto_da_alloc is enabled, ext4 will detect
318 the replace-via-rename and replace-via-truncate
319 patterns and force that any delayed allocation
320 blocks are allocated such that at the next
321 journal commit, in the default data=ordered
322 mode, the data blocks of the new file are forced
323 to disk before the rename() operation is
19f59460 324 committed. This provides roughly the same level
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325 of guarantees as ext3, and avoids the
326 "zero-length" problem that can happen when a
327 system crashes before the delayed allocation
328 blocks are forced to disk.
329
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330noinit_itable Do not initialize any uninitialized inode table
331 blocks in the background. This feature may be
332 used by installation CD's so that the install
333 process can complete as quickly as possible; the
334 inode table initialization process would then be
335 deferred until the next time the file system
336 is unmounted.
337
338init_itable=n The lazy itable init code will wait n times the
339 number of milliseconds it took to zero out the
340 previous block group's inode table. This
40e47125 341 minimizes the impact on the system performance
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342 while file system's inode table is being initialized.
343
6f9524e9 344discard Controls whether ext4 should issue discard/TRIM
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345nodiscard(*) commands to the underlying block device when
346 blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD devices
347 and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs, but it is off
348 by default until sufficient testing has been done.
349
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350nouid32 Disables 32-bit UIDs and GIDs. This is for
351 interoperability with older kernels which only
352 store and expect 16-bit values.
353
9e645ab7 354block_validity(*) These options enable or disable the in-kernel
6f9524e9 355noblock_validity facility for tracking filesystem metadata blocks
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356 within internal data structures. This allows multi-
357 block allocator and other routines to notice
358 bugs or corrupted allocation bitmaps which cause
359 blocks to be allocated which overlap with
360 filesystem metadata blocks.
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362dioread_lock Controls whether or not ext4 should use the DIO read
363dioread_nolock locking. If the dioread_nolock option is specified
364 ext4 will allocate uninitialized extent before buffer
365 write and convert the extent to initialized after IO
366 completes. This approach allows ext4 code to avoid
367 using inode mutex, which improves scalability on high
ad434017 368 speed storages. However this does not work with
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369 data journaling and dioread_nolock option will be
370 ignored with kernel warning. Note that dioread_nolock
371 code path is only used for extent-based files.
372 Because of the restrictions this options comprises
373 it is off by default (e.g. dioread_lock).
374
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375max_dir_size_kb=n This limits the size of directories so that any
376 attempt to expand them beyond the specified
377 limit in kilobytes will cause an ENOSPC error.
378 This is useful in memory constrained
379 environments, where a very large directory can
380 cause severe performance problems or even
381 provoke the Out Of Memory killer. (For example,
382 if there is only 512mb memory available, a 176mb
383 directory may seriously cramp the system's style.)
384
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385i_version Enable 64-bit inode version support. This option is
386 off by default.
387
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388dax Use direct access (no page cache). See
389 Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt. Note that
390 this option is incompatible with data=journal.
391
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394There are 3 different data modes:
395
396* writeback mode
397In data=writeback mode, ext4 does not journal data at all. This mode provides
398a similar level of journaling as that of XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS in its default
399mode - metadata journaling. A crash+recovery can cause incorrect data to
400appear in files which were written shortly before the crash. This mode will
401typically provide the best ext4 performance.
402
403* ordered mode
404In data=ordered mode, ext4 only officially journals metadata, but it logically
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405groups metadata information related to data changes with the data blocks into a
406single unit called a transaction. When it's time to write the new metadata
407out to disk, the associated data blocks are written first. In general,
408this mode performs slightly slower than writeback but significantly faster than journal mode.
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410* journal mode
411data=journal mode provides full data and metadata journaling. All new data is
412written to the journal first, and then to its final location.
413In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and
414metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data
415needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it
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416outperforms all others modes. Enabling this mode will disable delayed
417allocation and O_DIRECT support.
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421
422Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
423/proc/fs/ext4. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in
424/proc/fs/ext4 based on its device name (i.e., /proc/fs/ext4/hdc or
425/proc/fs/ext4/dm-0). The files in each per-device directory are shown
426in table below.
427
428Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
429..............................................................................
430 File Content
431 mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
432..............................................................................
433
434/sys entries
435============
436
437Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
438/sys/fs/ext4. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in
439/sys/fs/ext4 based on its device name (i.e., /sys/fs/ext4/hdc or
440/sys/fs/ext4/dm-0). The files in each per-device directory are shown
441in table below.
442
443Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>
444(see also Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-ext4)
445..............................................................................
446 File Content
447
448 delayed_allocation_blocks This file is read-only and shows the number of
449 blocks that are dirty in the page cache, but
450 which do not have their location in the
451 filesystem allocated yet.
452
453 inode_goal Tuning parameter which (if non-zero) controls
454 the goal inode used by the inode allocator in
455 preference to all other allocation heuristics.
456 This is intended for debugging use only, and
457 should be 0 on production systems.
458
459 inode_readahead_blks Tuning parameter which controls the maximum
460 number of inode table blocks that ext4's inode
461 table readahead algorithm will pre-read into
462 the buffer cache
463
464 lifetime_write_kbytes This file is read-only and shows the number of
465 kilobytes of data that have been written to this
466 filesystem since it was created.
467
468 max_writeback_mb_bump The maximum number of megabytes the writeback
469 code will try to write out before move on to
470 another inode.
471
472 mb_group_prealloc The multiblock allocator will round up allocation
473 requests to a multiple of this tuning parameter if
474 the stripe size is not set in the ext4 superblock
475
476 mb_max_to_scan The maximum number of extents the multiblock
477 allocator will search to find the best extent
478
479 mb_min_to_scan The minimum number of extents the multiblock
480 allocator will search to find the best extent
481
482 mb_order2_req Tuning parameter which controls the minimum size
483 for requests (as a power of 2) where the buddy
484 cache is used
485
486 mb_stats Controls whether the multiblock allocator should
487 collect statistics, which are shown during the
488 unmount. 1 means to collect statistics, 0 means
489 not to collect statistics
490
491 mb_stream_req Files which have fewer blocks than this tunable
492 parameter will have their blocks allocated out
493 of a block group specific preallocation pool, so
494 that small files are packed closely together.
495 Each large file will have its blocks allocated
496 out of its own unique preallocation pool.
497
498 session_write_kbytes This file is read-only and shows the number of
499 kilobytes of data that have been written to this
500 filesystem since it was mounted.
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502 reserved_clusters This is RW file and contains number of reserved
503 clusters in the file system which will be used
504 in the specific situations to avoid costly
505 zeroout, unexpected ENOSPC, or possible data
506 loss. The default is 2% or 4096 clusters,
507 whichever is smaller and this can be changed
508 however it can never exceed number of clusters
509 in the file system. If there is not enough space
510 for the reserved space when mounting the file
511 mount will _not_ fail.
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514Ioctls
515======
516
517There is some Ext4 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications
518through the system call interfaces. The list of all Ext4 specific ioctls are
519shown in the table below.
520
521Table of Ext4 specific ioctls
522..............................................................................
523 Ioctl Description
524 EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS Get additional attributes associated with inode.
525 The ioctl argument is an integer bitfield, with
526 bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is an
527 alias for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS.
528
529 EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS Set additional attributes associated with inode.
530 The ioctl argument is an integer bitfield, with
531 bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is an
532 alias for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS.
533
534 EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION
535 EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD
536 Get the inode i_generation number stored for
537 each inode. The i_generation number is normally
538 changed only when new inode is created and it is
539 particularly useful for network filesystems. The
540 '_OLD' version of this ioctl is an alias for
541 FS_IOC_GETVERSION.
542
543 EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION
544 EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION_OLD
545 Set the inode i_generation number stored for
546 each inode. The '_OLD' version of this ioctl
547 is an alias for FS_IOC_SETVERSION.
548
549 EXT4_IOC_GROUP_EXTEND This ioctl has the same purpose as the resize
550 mount option. It allows to resize filesystem
551 to the end of the last existing block group,
552 further resize has to be done with resize2fs,
553 either online, or offline. The argument points
554 to the unsigned logn number representing the
555 filesystem new block count.
556
557 EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT Move the block extents from orig_fd (the one
558 this ioctl is pointing to) to the donor_fd (the
559 one specified in move_extent structure passed
560 as an argument to this ioctl). Then, exchange
561 inode metadata between orig_fd and donor_fd.
562 This is especially useful for online
563 defragmentation, because the allocator has the
564 opportunity to allocate moved blocks better,
565 ideally into one contiguous extent.
566
567 EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD Add a new group descriptor to an existing or
568 new group descriptor block. The new group
569 descriptor is described by ext4_new_group_input
570 structure, which is passed as an argument to
571 this ioctl. This is especially useful in
572 conjunction with EXT4_IOC_GROUP_EXTEND,
573 which allows online resize of the filesystem
574 to the end of the last existing block group.
575 Those two ioctls combined is used in userspace
576 online resize tool (e.g. resize2fs).
577
578 EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE This ioctl operates on the filesystem itself.
579 It converts (migrates) ext3 indirect block mapped
580 inode to ext4 extent mapped inode by walking
581 through indirect block mapping of the original
582 inode and converting contiguous block ranges
583 into ext4 extents of the temporary inode. Then,
584 inodes are swapped. This ioctl might help, when
585 migrating from ext3 to ext4 filesystem, however
586 suggestion is to create fresh ext4 filesystem
587 and copy data from the backup. Note, that
588 filesystem has to support extents for this ioctl
589 to work.
590
591 EXT4_IOC_ALLOC_DA_BLKS Force all of the delay allocated blocks to be
592 allocated to preserve application-expected ext3
593 behaviour. Note that this will also start
594 triggering a write of the data blocks, but this
595 behaviour may change in the future as it is
596 not necessary and has been done this way only
597 for sake of simplicity.
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599 EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS Resize the filesystem to a new size. The number
600 of blocks of resized filesystem is passed in via
601 64 bit integer argument. The kernel allocates
602 bitmaps and inode table, the userspace tool thus
603 just passes the new number of blocks.
604
98bfa344 605 EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT Swap i_blocks and associated attributes
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606 (like i_blocks, i_size, i_flags, ...) from
607 the specified inode with inode
608 EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO (#5). This is typically
609 used to store a boot loader in a secure part of
610 the filesystem, where it can't be changed by a
611 normal user by accident.
612 The data blocks of the previous boot loader
613 will be associated with the given inode.
614
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619
620kernel source: <file:fs/ext4/>
621 <file:fs/jbd2/>
622
623programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
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625useful links: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel
626 http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/
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627 http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
628 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4