From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add checks to validate extent entries.
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:01:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090209103158.GD31884@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499004C4.9040305@ph.tum.de>
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > This patch adds check to validate the extent entries along
> > with extent headers. Should handle crash with corrupt filesystem.
>
> While your patch probably decreases the average number of checks that
> are done, it makes single random accesses quite expensive since always
> complete extent blocks are checked at once, even if just a single pblock
> is accessed. No idea whether there are workloads which have that as a
> typical access pattern...
The second patch make sure we do it only when we read the extent
information from the disk.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-07 15:36 [PATCH] introduce range check for extent pblock references Thiemo Nagel
2009-02-07 17:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-07 18:49 ` Thiemo Nagel
2009-02-07 19:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-07 20:01 ` [PATCH] Add checks to validate extent entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-07 20:01 ` [PATCH] Validate extent details only when read from the disk Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-09 10:31 ` Thiemo Nagel
2009-02-09 10:48 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-02-09 11:12 ` Thiemo Nagel
2009-02-09 10:26 ` [PATCH] Add checks to validate extent entries Thiemo Nagel
2009-02-09 10:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2009-02-09 10:40 ` Thiemo Nagel
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