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From: djwong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>,
	Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] jbd2: reduce the number of writes when commiting a transacation
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:34:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425203434.GB6938@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424194108.GI18865@thunk.org>

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:41:08PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:19:48PM +0000, djwong wrote:
> > 
> > My huge checksum patchset _does_ include checksums for data blocks; see the
> > t_checksum field in struct journal_block_tag_s.  iirc the corresponding journal
> > replay modifications will skip over corrupt data blocks and keep going.
> 
> I need to check for this in the patches (and you may be doing this
> already), but in the kernel failed checksums should result in an
> ext4_error() call which will set the file system as corrupt and
> needing to be checked.  And in e2fsck it should force a full check of
> the file system.

I'm fairly sure the kernel patch doesn't do that, I think it just skips the
block and moves on.

As for e2fsck... what does one do inside e2fsck to force a full check?  Is that
just the equivalent of passing -f?

--D
> 
> 					- Ted
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20 11:06 [RFC] jbd2: reduce the number of writes when commiting a transacation Zheng Liu
2012-04-20 11:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-23  2:25   ` Zheng Liu
2012-04-23  6:24     ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-23  7:23       ` Zheng Liu
2012-04-23 22:19       ` djwong
2012-04-24 19:41         ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-25 20:34           ` djwong [this message]
2012-04-24 21:57       ` Jan Kara
2012-04-25  1:27         ` Ted Ts'o

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