From: Edward Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: dm-persistent-data: free sm_metadata on failed create
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 06:45:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161202114556.GE5643@roamer.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201164105.GA26457@redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Staged for 4.10 inclusion with a revised header, see:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.10&id=b34af3050734ba53a7afa4f3ab9fe9d6bbfbf802
It's not urgent. In general if something goes wrong with a persistent
data transaction we just abort and roll back. So there are a lot of
error paths where we don't bother to repair metadata that's in the
doomed transaction.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-02 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-30 23:56 [PATCH] dm-persistent-data: free sm_metadata on failed create Benjamin Marzinski
2016-12-01 10:58 ` Edward Thornber
2016-12-01 16:41 ` Mike Snitzer
2016-12-02 11:45 ` Edward Thornber [this message]
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