From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, bfoster@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] xfs_repair: allow setting the needsrepair flag
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 08:47:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210209164713.GE7190@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f52ff4e2-16c3-89dd-30aa-a29f56cd29d1@sandeen.net>
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:41:34AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>
> On 2/9/21 3:15 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 08:10:49PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> >>
> >> Quietly set up the ability to tell xfs_repair to set NEEDSREPAIR at
> >> program start and (presumably) clear it by the end of the run. This
> >> code isn't terribly useful to users; it's mainly here so that fstests
> >> can exercise the functionality.
> >
> > What does the quietly above mean?
>
> I think it means "don't document it in the man page, this is a secret
> for XFS developers and testers"
Yep. I'll add the following to the commit message:
"We don't document this flag in the manual pages at all because repair
clears needsrepair at exit, which means the knobs only exist for fstests
to exercise the functionality."
--D
>
> > Otherwise this looks good:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 4:10 [PATCHSET v4 00/10] xfs: add the ability to flag a fs for repair Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfs_admin: clean up string quoting Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfs_admin: support filesystems with realtime devices Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:19 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfs_db: support the needsrepair feature flag in the version command Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:15 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 17:19 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfs_repair: fix unmount error message to have a newline Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfs_repair: clear quota CHKD flags on the incore superblock too Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:20 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 17:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfs_repair: clear the needsrepair flag Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:20 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 18:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs_repair: set NEEDSREPAIR when we deliberately corrupt directories Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 18:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 17:20 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 18:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 19:14 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 19:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-10 20:19 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs_repair: allow setting the needsrepair flag Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 14:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-02-09 16:47 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2021-02-10 20:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-02-09 17:21 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 18:10 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-10 20:26 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-02-09 4:10 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs_repair: add a testing hook for NEEDSREPAIR Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:21 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 18:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 18:59 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 19:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 20:32 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-10 21:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-02-11 1:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs_admin: support adding features to V5 filesystems Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-09 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 17:22 ` Brian Foster
2021-02-09 18:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
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