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From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>, Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: extent-tree: Check if the newly reserved tree block is already in use
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:28:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d7b535f-5466-3a6b-7a04-99e88b75f0fc@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ca2ca79-0f76-2ac7-b4b6-5266338a053f@gmx.com>



On 17.07.2018 11:24, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> And it's causing problem for certain test cases.
> Please ignore this (at least for now).
> 
> But on the other hand, we indeed have a lot of reports on corrupted
> extent tree, it's possible to hit some corrupted extent tree (Su is
> already exhausted by the corrupted tree reported by Marc)
> 
> So I'm not completely fine with current extent tree error handling.
> I'll try to find some balance in next version.


I agree we need a better OVERALL error handling/detection. Your
tree-checker work IMO is a step in the right direction. What I want is
to prevent ad-hoc checks being sprinkled in the code. Sorry, but that's
not fine. The thing with working on a lot of corruption reports is the
fact each one of them is looked at in isolation so it produces isolated
fixes. Whereas if a step back is taken and the overall error
handling/detection is considered it might turn out a whole class of
corruption could be detected by a single change, otherwise checks upon
checks will be added which just add technical debt.

Considering this, I'm more in favor of extending the tree-checker to be
the central place where errors are detected (of course this is easier
said than done).

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-17  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-17  7:46 [PATCH] btrfs: extent-tree: Check if the newly reserved tree block is already in use Qu Wenruo
2018-07-17  8:01 ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-07-17  8:11   ` Su Yue
2018-07-17  8:24   ` Qu Wenruo
2018-07-17  8:28     ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2018-07-17  8:33       ` Qu Wenruo

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