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From: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
To: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/21] Btrfs: add basic restriper infrastructure
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:08:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAFD340.5090404@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111101110734.GE12759@twin.jikos.cz>

On 01.11.2011 12:07, David Sterba wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:08:38AM +0100, Arne Jansen wrote:
>>> +/*
>>> + * Should be called with restripe_mutex held
>>> + */
>>> +int btrfs_restripe(struct restripe_control *rctl)
>>> +{
> ...
>>> +	if (rctl->data.target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP) {
>>> +		printk(KERN_ERR "btrfs: dup for data is not allowed\n");
>>> +		ret = -EINVAL;
>>> +		goto out;
>>> +	}
>>
>> It would be good to get these error messages somehow to the user,
>> or at least give the user a hint to look in dmesg.
> 
> the restriper command ends with EINVAL which is in most cases returned
> as a result of the ioctl and progs counterpart will
> 
> 1117                         fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: error during restriping '%s' "
> 1118                                 "- %s\n", path, strerror(e));
> 1119                         return 19;
> 
> the hint should go there imho.

Though it would still be much nicer to get a proper error message to the
user directly.

> 
> 
> david

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-23 20:01 [PATCH 00/21] [RFC] Btrfs: restriper Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 01/21] Btrfs: get rid of *_alloc_profile fields Ilya Dryomov
2011-09-27 12:51   ` David Sterba
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 02/21] Btrfs: introduce masks for chunk type and profile Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 03/21] Btrfs: add BTRFS_AVAIL_ALLOC_BIT_SINGLE bit Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-01  7:56   ` Arne Jansen
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 04/21] Btrfs: make avail_*_alloc_bits fields dynamic Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 05/21] Btrfs: add basic restriper infrastructure Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-01 10:08   ` Arne Jansen
2011-11-01 11:07     ` David Sterba
2011-11-01 11:08       ` Arne Jansen [this message]
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 06/21] Btrfs: implement online profile changing Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 07/21] Btrfs: add basic infrastructure for selective balancing Ilya Dryomov
2011-09-27 13:02   ` David Sterba
2011-09-27 17:28     ` Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 08/21] Btrfs: soft profile changing mode (aka soft convert) Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 09/21] Btrfs: profiles filter Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 10/21] Btrfs: usage filter Ilya Dryomov
2011-09-27 13:22   ` David Sterba
2011-11-01 10:18   ` Arne Jansen
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 11/21] Btrfs: devid filter Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 12/21] Btrfs: devid subset filter Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 13/21] Btrfs: virtual address space " Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 14/21] Btrfs: save restripe parameters to disk Ilya Dryomov
2011-09-27 13:43   ` David Sterba
2011-11-01 10:29   ` Arne Jansen
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 15/21] Btrfs: recover restripe on mount Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-01 10:57   ` Arne Jansen
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 16/21] Btrfs: allow for cancelling restriper Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 17/21] Btrfs: allow for pausing restriper Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-01 11:46   ` Arne Jansen
2011-08-23 20:01 ` [PATCH 18/21] Btrfs: allow for resuming restriper after it was paused Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:02 ` [PATCH 19/21] Btrfs: add skip_restripe mount option Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:02 ` [PATCH 20/21] Btrfs: get rid of btrfs_balance() function Ilya Dryomov
2011-08-23 20:02 ` [PATCH 21/21] Btrfs: add restripe progress reporting Ilya Dryomov
2011-09-27 12:47 ` [PATCH 00/21] [RFC] Btrfs: restriper David Sterba
2011-11-14 23:59 ` Phillip Susi
2011-11-15  9:22   ` Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-15 14:33     ` Phillip Susi
2011-11-15 15:06       ` Ilya Dryomov
2011-11-17  3:13 ` Phillip Susi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-06 14:30 [PATCH 00/21] " Ilya Dryomov
2012-01-06 14:30 ` [PATCH 05/21] Btrfs: add basic restriper infrastructure Ilya Dryomov

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