Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: open filesystem device exclusively

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:50:02PM -0400, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> (Error messages could probably be improved to be more user-friendly in
> this new failure case, and it probably wouldn't hurt to add a BLKROGET
> ioctl to check for read-only block devices with read-write permissions,
> but this does the job for me.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathaniel W. Turner <nate@houseofnate.net>
> ---
>  repair/init.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/repair/init.c b/repair/init.c
> index 8e508c4..7e5052c 100644
> --- a/repair/init.c
> +++ b/repair/init.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ xfs_init(libxfs_init_t *args)
>          args->isreadonly = (LIBXFS_ISREADONLY | LIBXFS_ISINACTIVE);
>      else if (dangerously)
>          args->isreadonly = (LIBXFS_ISINACTIVE | LIBXFS_DANGEROUSLY);
> +    else
> +        args->isreadonly = LIBXFS_EXCLUSIVELY;

Given that we skip it for -d and -n this is fine with me.

I think we might want to delay this change in the way xfs_repair
operates until after we get a 3.0.1 release out with all the build
system fixes (hopefully really soon)

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