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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] xfs: limit superblock corruption errors to actual corruption
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:37:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140219033721.GL13647@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392767549-25574-3-git-send-email-sandeen@redhat.com>

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:52:22PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Today, if
> 
> xfs_sb_read_verify
>   xfs_sb_verify
>     xfs_mount_validate_sb
> 
> detects superblock corruption, it'll be extremely noisy, dumping
> 2 stacks, 2 hexdumps, etc.
> 
> This is because we call XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR in xfs_mount_validate_sb
> as well as in xfs_sb_read_verify.
> 
> Also, *any* errors in xfs_mount_validate_sb which are not corruption
> per se; things like too-big-blocksize, bad version, bad magic, v1 dirs,
> rw-incompat etc - things which do not return EFSCORRUPTED - will
> still do the whole XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR spew when xfs_sb_read_verify
> sees any error at all.  And it suggests to the user that they
> should run xfs_repair, even if the root cause of the mount failure
> is a simple incompatibility.
> 
> I'll submit that the probably-not-corrupted errors don't warrant
> this much noise, so this patch removes the warning for anything
> other than EFSCORRUPTED returns, and replaces the lower-level
> XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR with an xfs_notice().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Agreed. Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-19  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18 23:52 [PATCH 0/9] current series for verifier error differentiation Eric Sandeen
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: skip verification on initial "guess" superblock read Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19  3:36   ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: limit superblock corruption errors to actual corruption Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19  3:37   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: skip pointless CRC updates after verifier failures Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19  6:35   ` Jeff Liu
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: Use defines for CRC offsets in all cases Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19  7:56   ` Jeff Liu
2014-02-20  0:27     ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-20  9:33       ` Jeff Liu
2014-02-20  9:41       ` Jeff Liu
2014-02-27  2:15         ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: add helper for verifying checksums on xfs_bufs Eric Sandeen
2014-02-27  4:17   ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: add helper for updating " Eric Sandeen
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: add xfs_verifier_error() Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19  6:30   ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-20  2:58   ` [PATCH 7/9 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2014-02-27  4:20     ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: print useful caller information in xfs_error_report Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19 12:42   ` Jeff Liu
2014-02-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: modify verifiers to differentiate CRC from other errors Eric Sandeen
2014-02-19 14:01   ` Brian Foster
2014-02-19 16:12     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-02-20  3:10   ` [PATCH 9/9 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2014-02-20 13:10     ` Brian Foster
2014-02-27  9:12 ` [PATCH 0/9] current series for verifier error differentiation Dave Chinner

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