Re: [PATCH 0/9] xfs: configurable error behaviour

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:23:18PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I need to restart the discussion and review of this patch series.
> There was some discussion of it last time, but nothing really came
> from that. I'm posting what I have in my tree right now - treat it
> as though it's an initial posting of the code because I can't recall
> what I've changed since the first posting.
> 
> What I'd like to have to for the next merge window is all the IO
> error bits sorted out. The final patch (kmem failure behaviour)
> needs more infrastructure (passing mp to every allocation) so that's
> a secondary concern right now and I've only included it to
> demonstrate how to apply this code ot a different subsystem.
> 
> Things that need to be nailed down before I can commit the series:
> 
> 	- sysfs layout
> 	- naming conventions for errors and subsystems in sysfs
> 	- how best to display/change default behaviour
> 
> Things that we can change/implement later:
> 
> 	- default behaviour
> 	- additional error classes
> 	- additional error types
> 	- additional subsystems
> 	- subsystem error handling implementation
> 	- communication with other subsystems to dynamically change
> 	  error behaviour
> 
> IOWs, what is important right now is how we present this to
> userspace, because we can't change that easily once we've decided on
> a presentation structure.
> 
> Modifying the code to classify and handle all the different error
> types is much less important, as we can change that to fix whatever
> problems we have without impacting the presentation to userspace.
> 
> There is definite need for this (e.g. handling of ENOSPC on thin
> provisioned devices), so I want to get quickly to a consensus on the
> userspace facing aspects so that we can get this ball rolling.
> 
> The biggest unsolved issue is how to change the default behaviour
> persistently. There is no infrastructure in this patch series to do
> that, but it is someting that we have to consider so that we don't
> require default behaviour to be changed after every mount of every
> filesystem on a system. My thoughts on this is we store changes to
> the defaults in xattrs on the root inode, but I'm open to ideas here
> as there's no code written for it yet. Solving this problem,
> however, is not necessary before commiting the initial code; it's
> something we can add later once we've worked out all the details.
> 
> Discuss!
> 
> -Dave.
> 
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