ext4: Change the default behaviour on error
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:58:26 +0000 (23:58 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:58:26 +0000 (23:58 -0500)
ext4 file system was by default ignoring errors and continuing. This
is not a good default as continuing on error could lead to file system
corruption. Change the default to mark the file system
readonly. Debian and ubuntu already does this as the default in their
fstab.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
fs/ext4/super.c

index 32e3ecb35cd7ac9c654959fda61c95dd37ebbf66..effd375ece8049b55135c6444df3c31e6be557ab 100644 (file)
@@ -688,16 +688,16 @@ static int ext4_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct vfsmount *vfs)
            le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid) != EXT4_DEF_RESGID) {
                seq_printf(seq, ",resgid=%u", sbi->s_resgid);
        }
-       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT)) {
+       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
                int def_errors = le16_to_cpu(es->s_errors);
 
                if (def_errors == EXT4_ERRORS_PANIC ||
-                   def_errors == EXT4_ERRORS_RO) {
-                       seq_puts(seq, ",errors=continue");
+                   def_errors == EXT4_ERRORS_CONTINUE) {
+                       seq_puts(seq, ",errors=remount-ro");
                }
        }
-       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO))
-               seq_puts(seq, ",errors=remount-ro");
+       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT))
+               seq_puts(seq, ",errors=continue");
        if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
                seq_puts(seq, ",errors=panic");
        if (test_opt(sb, NO_UID32))
@@ -1819,10 +1819,10 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 
        if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT4_ERRORS_PANIC)
                set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_PANIC);
-       else if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT4_ERRORS_RO)
-               set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_RO);
-       else
+       else if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT4_ERRORS_CONTINUE)
                set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_CONT);
+       else
+               set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_RO);
 
        sbi->s_resuid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resuid);
        sbi->s_resgid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid);