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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9 V2] xfs: add xfs_verifier_error()
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:20:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227042053.GH29907@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53056F43.7070005@sandeen.net>

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:58:11PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We want to distinguish between corruption, CRC errors,
> etc.  In addition, the full stack trace on verifier errors
> seems less than helpful; it looks more like an oops than
> corruption.
> 
> Create a new function to specifically alert the user to
> verifier errors, which can differentiate between
> EFSCORRUPTED and CRC mismatches.  It doesn't dump stack
> unless the xfs error level is turned up high.
> 
> Define a new error message (EFSBADCRC) to clearly identify
> CRC errors.  (Defined to EILSEQ, bad byte sequence)

I've updated this to be EBADMSG, to match the code.

Otherwise, looks good.

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27  4:21 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
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 [this message]
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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