From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] repair: fix the variable-width nlink array
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 02:44:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302074433.GA4117@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301212822.GM7762@sgi.com>
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:28:22PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> Hey Christoph,
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:42:24PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > It looks like we currently never grow the variable-width nlink array
> > if only the on-disk nlink size overflows 8 bits. This leads to a major
> > mess in nlink counting, and eventually an assert in phase7.
> >
> > Replace the indirect all mess with a union that allows doing proper
> > array arithmetics while we're at it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> This looks good to me. I enjoyed the fallthrus in set_inode_disk_nlinks
> and add_inode_ref.
>
> I haven't tested with this many links though... Are there any xfstests
> that would exercise this?
There is none yet. I've tested it with Arekm's test metadump, which
I've added to my nasty images collection. I'll create a testcase
reproducing this artifically.
> On my machine test 030 has regressed. It passed on 3.1.7.
That's an older change. I have a fix in my local tree, but it needs
polishing so that it still works with older repair versions.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 17:42 [PATCH 1/2] repair: fix the variable-width nlink array Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-28 17:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] repair: fix messages from set_nlinks Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-02 22:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-01 21:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] repair: fix the variable-width nlink array Ben Myers
2012-03-02 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-03-26 17:49 ` Ben Myers
2012-03-27 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-02 9:41 ` Dave Chinner
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