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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: ensure we copy buffer type in da btree root splits
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 01:17:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130902081725.GB11210@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378081921-18570-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:32:01AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> When splitting the root of the da btree, we shuffled data between
> buffers and the structures that track them. At one point, we copy
> data and state from one buffer to another, including the ops
> aasociated with the buffer. When we do this, we also need to copy
> the buffer type associated with the buf log item so that the buffer
> is logged correctly. If we don't do that, log recovery won't
> recognise it and hence it won't recalculate the CRC on the buffer
> after recovery. This leads to a directory block that can't be read
> after recovery has run.
> 
> Found by inspection after finding the same problem with remote
> symlink buffers.

It would be great to find a way to trigger this in QA as this shows
another area lacking coverage.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-02  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-02  0:31 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: log recovery buffer fixes Dave Chinner
2013-09-02  0:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: set remote symlink buffer type for recovery Dave Chinner
2013-09-02  8:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-02 10:05     ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-02  0:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: ensure we copy buffer type in da btree root splits Dave Chinner
2013-09-02  8:17   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-09-02 10:09     ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-10 22:41 ` [PATCH 0/2] xfs: log recovery buffer fixes Ben Myers

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