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From: "Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: further improvement on secondary superblock search method
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 07:10:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160531121007.GA7513@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160530053710.GO26977@dastard>

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:37:10PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:38:16PM -0500, Bill O'Donnell wrote:
> > This patch is a further optimization of secondary sb search, in order to
> > handle non-default geometries. Once again, use a similar method to find
> > fs geometry as that of xfs_mkfs. Refactor verify_sb(), creating new
> > sub-function that checks sanity of agblocks and agcount: verify_sb_blocksize().
> > 
> > If verify_sb_blocksize verifies sane paramters, use found values for the sb
> > search. Otherwise, try search with default values. If these faster methods
> > both fail, fall back to original brute force slower search.
> > 
> > NOTE: patch series "xfs_repair: improved secondary sb search" must be
> > applied before applying this patch.
> > (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-05/msg00269.html)
> 
> Either this or one of the above patches is causing xfs/030 on
> my xfstests runs to fail with extra output:
> 
> xfs/030 4s ... - output mismatch (see /home/dave/src/xfstests-dev/results//xfs/xfs/030.out.bad)
>     --- tests/xfs/030.out       2016-04-06 11:30:45.348477421 +1000
>     +++ /home/dave/src/xfstests-dev/results//xfs/xfs/030.out.bad        2016-05-30 13:06:29.955682633 +1000
>     @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>      bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!!
>      
>      attempting to find secondary superblock...
>     +....
>     +attempting to find secondary superblock...
>      found candidate secondary superblock...
>      verified secondary superblock...
>     ...
>     (Run 'diff -u tests/xfs/030.out /home/dave/src/xfstests-dev/results//xfs/xfs/030.out.bad'  to see the entire diff)
> 
> Bill, can you please work up a filter or equivalent for xfstests
> so that this extra output doesn't cause unnecessary failures?
> Something like simply filtering all the "attempting to find
> secondary superblock..." and "...." lines from the output would work
> just fine - all we really care about is that a secondary sb is found
> and verified, not how many steps it takes to find it...

Yep. Will do.
Thanks-
Bill

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-31 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-12 20:38 [PATCH] xfs_repair: further improvement on secondary superblock search method Bill O'Donnell
2016-05-23 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23 15:27   ` Bill O'Donnell
2016-05-30  5:37 ` Dave Chinner
2016-05-30 22:06   ` Eric Sandeen
2016-05-31 12:12     ` Bill O'Donnell
2016-05-31 12:10   ` Bill O'Donnell [this message]
2016-05-31 17:37 ` [PATCH V2] " Bill O'Donnell

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