From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] libxfs: reused invalidated buffers leak state and data
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 02:48:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140705094807.GB18130@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140704222210.GM9508@dastard>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 08:22:10AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I'm open to other ways of fixing this, but right now we've got to
> fix xfs_repair because it's currently breaking filesystems worse
> than before xfs_repair was run...
Ok, so clearly mark this as difference from kernel code in a long
comment explaining the situation similar to wrote you above. It's
pretty obvious that the buffer cache in userspace will eventually need
a major overhaul sooner or later. I wonder how feasible porting the
kernel one would be..
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-04 5:57 [PATCH 0/6] xfsprogs: fixes for 3.2.1 Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] repair: support more than 25 ACLs Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfs_db: write command broken on 64 bit values Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] repair: handle directory block corruption in phase 6 Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] libxfs: reused invalidated buffers leak state and data Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 22:22 ` Dave Chinner
2014-07-05 9:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-07-06 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2014-07-07 0:09 ` Dave Chinner
2014-07-07 10:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] repair: fix quota inode handling in secondary superblocks Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-04 5:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] repair: get rid of BADFSINO Dave Chinner
2014-07-04 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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