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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, jeremy@sgi.com
Subject: Re: review: fix remount vs barrier options
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:06:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060723190650.GA22180@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721152807.D1998769@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>

> It finally clicked that we are not clearing the buffer flag
> from a previously written log buffer, even though we'll no
> longer set a new flag into a buffer (due to the mount flag
> being cleared), so we _can_ still issue barrier writes when
> remounted without barriers.

That's true.  Ooops.

> This was made more complicated by the way a freshly mounted
> filesystem with 8 log buffers wouldn't show up the problem,
> since we have to slowly cycle through the "clear" log buffers
> before we see the bug.  This seems like the simplest fix...
> 
> (Hmmm, actually, I wonder if this will also resolve the quota
> log I/O problem that was reported the other day too).

Shouldn't we make sure we clear all flags when reusing a log buffer?
Relying on clearing individual flags seems rather fragile to me.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-23 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-21  5:28 review: fix remount vs barrier options Nathan Scott
2006-07-21  6:25 ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-07-23 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-07-24  0:01   ` Nathan Scott
2006-07-24  1:27     ` Nathan Scott
2006-07-25  9:44       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-25 22:21         ` Nathan Scott

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