Re: [PATCH] xfs_db: modify bad_features2 when modifying features2

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:17:55PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> +	if (xfs_sb_has_mismatched_features2(&tsb)) {
>>> +		dbprintf(_("Superblock has mismatched features2 fields, "
>>> +			   "skipping modification\n"));
>>> +		return 0;
>>> +	}
>> However I'm not sure if this one is an all that good idea.  It'll make
>> all version updates fail if we have a mismatched features2.  That way
>> people can't use xfs_db to fix it up which seems odd.
>>
>> To me just printing the warning but not aborting would be the best way
>> to inform the user about it.
> 
> hm yeah I suppose so.
> 
> I wonder if we should catch it somehow on the feature-set shortcuts
> like "attr1" but allow it for explicit value sets ...

actually:

"version" prints version
"version <featurename>" adds that feature
"version <value> <value>" prints the names for the values but doesn't change anything

... so you can still modify mismatched values by writing to the superblocks
directly although that's a little tedious.  But that shouldn't really happen
too often.

I'm just wary of automatically overwriting the mismatch w/o errors... it seems
like some intervention might be necessary.

Or, since the kernel does this already (fixes up mismatches) maybe we should
just put the same algorithms into xfs_db but that's getting tricky.  :)

Maybe for a later date ...

-Eric

> ?
> 
> -Eric
> 
>>> +
>>>  	if ((version & XFS_SB_VERSION_LOGV2BIT) &&
>>>  					!xfs_sb_version_haslogv2(&tsb)) {
>>>  		tsb.sb_logsunit = 1;
>>> @@ -564,7 +570,8 @@ do_version(xfs_agnumber_t agno, __uint16_t version, __uint32_t features)
>>>  
>>>  	tsb.sb_versionnum = version;
>>>  	tsb.sb_features2 = features;
>>> -	fields |= XFS_SB_VERSIONNUM | XFS_SB_FEATURES2;
>>> +	tsb.sb_bad_features2 = features;
>>> +	fields |= XFS_SB_VERSIONNUM | XFS_SB_FEATURES2 | XFS_SB_BAD_FEATURES2;
>> This one looks good to me.
>>
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