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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, <jack@suse.cz>,
	<adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>, <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] ext4: remove ext4_buffer_uptodate()
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:53:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200807175307.GW7657@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200620025427.1756360-3-yi.zhang@huawei.com>

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:54:24AM +0800, zhangyi (F) wrote:
> After we add async write error check in ext4_journal_get_write_access(),
> we can remove the partial fix for filesystem inconsistency problem
> caused by reading old data from disk, which in commit <7963e5ac9012>
> "ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data" and
> <cf2834a5ed57> "ext4: treat buffers contining write errors as valid in
> ext4_sb_bread()".
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>

I think it's better to keep these checks (in commits 2 and 3) because
ext4_error() doens't guarantee that the file system will be aborted.
For better or for worse, there are a large number of file systems
which default to errors=continue.

So if we notice that the buffer is not up to date, due to a write
error, we can avoid some (although not all) damage if we keep this
workaround.

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-20  2:54 [PATCH v3 0/5] ext4: fix inconsistency since async write metadata buffer error zhangyi (F)
2020-06-20  2:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] ext4: abort the filesystem if failed to async write metadata buffer zhangyi (F)
2020-08-07 17:49   ` tytso
2020-06-20  2:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] ext4: remove ext4_buffer_uptodate() zhangyi (F)
2020-08-07 17:53   ` tytso [this message]
2020-06-20  2:54 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] ext4: remove write io error check before read inode block zhangyi (F)
2020-06-20  2:54 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] jbd2: abort journal if free a async write error metadata buffer zhangyi (F)
2020-08-07 17:59   ` tytso
2020-06-20  2:54 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] jbd2: remove unused parameter in jbd2_journal_try_to_free_buffers() zhangyi (F)
2020-07-13  1:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ext4: fix inconsistency since async write metadata buffer error zhangyi (F)

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