From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: [RFC xfstests PATCH] xfstests: add a writeback error handling test Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 11:33:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1494343983.2659.7.camel@redhat.com> References: <20170424134551.10301-1-jlayton@redhat.com> <20170424150019.GA3288@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, osd-dev@open-osd.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, mawilcox@microsoft.com, jack@suse.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, corbet@lwn.net, neilb@suse.de, clm@fb.com, tytso@mit.edu, axboe@kernel.dk To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170424150019.GA3288@infradead.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 08:00 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > With the patch series above, ext4 now passes. xfs and btrfs end up in > > r/o mode after the test. xfs returns -EIO at that point though, and > > btrfs returns -EROFS. What behavior we actually want there, I'm not > > certain. We might be able to mitigate that by putting the journals on a > > separate device? > > This looks like XFS shut down because of a permanent write error from > dm-error. Which seems like the expected behavior. Oops, didn't see this message earlier... Yeah, that's entirely reasonable when there is a write error to the journal. The latest version of this uses $SCRATCH_LOGDEV to put the journal on a different device, and with that I get the expected behavior from xfs. Thanks, -- Jeff Layton -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org