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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] metadump: sanitise write_buf/index return values
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:51:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FE73B3.1020804@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214022053.GQ13997@dastard>

On 02/13/14 20:20, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 01:30:00PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> On 01/23/14 04:23, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Write_buf/write_index use confusing boolean values for return,
>>> meaning that it's hard to tell what the correct error return is
>>> supposed to be.  Convert them to return zero on success or a
>>> negative errno otherwise so that it's clear what the error case is.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> Looks like this patch broke metadumps on some corrupted filesystems.
>> This is a legacy filesystem that has zeroes overwriting the
>> SB/AGF/AGI on AG 1/2/3:
>>
>>
>> # xfs_metadump -wgo /dev/sda8 myfile.metadata
>> xfs_agf_read_verify: XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR
>> xfs_metadump: cannot init perag data (117). Continuing anyway.
>> Copied 64 of 64 inodes (0 of 4 AGs) xfs_agf_write_verify: XF
>> S_CORRUPTION_ERROR
>> write_buf: write verifer failed on bno 0x1100919/0x200
>> (no output)
>
> Where did it crash? Can you post the stack trace from gdb? Even
> better, can you send a patch to fix the problem? ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

No crash, just exits without performing the dump.

--Mark.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-23 10:23 [PATCH 0/5] metadump: discontiguous directory block support Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] metadump: sanitise write_buf/index return values Dave Chinner
2014-02-03 11:08   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-02-13 19:30   ` Mark Tinguely
2014-02-14  2:20     ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-14 19:51       ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2014-02-14 20:54         ` Mark Tinguely
2014-01-23 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] metadump: support writing discontiguous io cursors Dave Chinner
2014-02-03 15:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-23 10:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] metadump: separate single block objects from multiblock objects Dave Chinner
2014-02-03 15:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-02-03 22:19     ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-23 10:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] metadump: walk single fsb objects a block at a time Dave Chinner
2014-02-03 15:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-23 10:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] metadump: fully support discontiguous directory blocks Dave Chinner
2014-02-03 21:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-02-03  3:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] metadump: discontiguous directory block support Dave Chinner

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