ext4: change on-disk layout to support extended metadata checksumming

Define flags and change structure definitions to allow checksumming of
ext4 metadata.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
index 0f58b86e3a020..94822e74ef73b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_extents.h
@@ -63,9 +63,22 @@
  * ext4_inode has i_block array (60 bytes total).
  * The first 12 bytes store ext4_extent_header;
  * the remainder stores an array of ext4_extent.
+ * For non-inode extent blocks, ext4_extent_tail
+ * follows the array.
  */
 
 /*
+ * This is the extent tail on-disk structure.
+ * All other extent structures are 12 bytes long.  It turns out that
+ * block_size % 12 >= 4 for at least all powers of 2 greater than 512, which
+ * covers all valid ext4 block sizes.  Therefore, this tail structure can be
+ * crammed into the end of the block without having to rebalance the tree.
+ */
+struct ext4_extent_tail {
+	__le32	et_checksum;	/* crc32c(uuid+inum+extent_block) */
+};
+
+/*
  * This is the extent on-disk structure.
  * It's used at the bottom of the tree.
  */