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From: liubo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@mikefedyk.com>
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <yanzheng@21cn.com>,
	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
	Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4 v2] Btrfs: avoid transaction stuff when readonly
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:36:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF73E7F.40808@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=WE5FO6YiW18O9_sVUyhHmQQCjdKEzCSFrMaZh@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/02/2010 01:41 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Yan, Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:42 AM, liubo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/01/2010 06:20 PM, liubo wrote:
>>>> When the filesystem is readonly, avoid transaction stuff by checking MS_RDONLY at
>>>> start transaction time.
>>>>
>>> This patch may lead btrfs panic.
>>>
>>> Since btrfs allows transaction under readonly fs state, which is a bit weird, btrfs
>>> does not even check the returned transaction from start_transaction, although it may
>>> return -ENOMEM.
>> btrfs may do log replay even mount as readonly.
>>
> 
> What part is logged besides tree roots and/or superblocks?

log tree is used for log replay after crash and fast fsync and O_SYNC, it logs
inodes.

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-02  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-01 10:20 [RFC PATCH 2/4 v2] Btrfs: avoid transaction stuff when readonly liubo
2010-12-02  3:42 ` liubo
2010-12-02  4:28   ` Yan, Zheng 
2010-12-02  5:38     ` liubo
2010-12-02  5:41     ` Mike Fedyk
2010-12-02  6:36       ` liubo [this message]

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