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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] xfs_repair: add a testing hook for NEEDSREPAIR
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:30:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210211013017.GB7193@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acfe3b90-9364-85d5-84e7-7a1b888bae9e@sandeen.net>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/9/21 1:59 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >> # ./repair/xfs_repair -c needsrepair=1 /dev/test/scratch 
> >> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> >> Marking filesystem in need of repair.
> >> writing modified primary superblock
> >> Phase 2 - using internal log
> >>         - zero log...
> >> ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs to
> >> ...
> >> # mount /dev/test/scratch /mnt/
> >> mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/test-scratch, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
> >> #
> >>
> >> It looks like we can set a feature upgrade bit on the superblock before
> >> we've examined the log and potentially discovered that it's dirty (phase
> >> 2). If the log is recoverable, that puts the user in a bit of a bind..
> > Heh, funny that I was thinking that the upgrades shouldn't really be
> > happening in phase 1 anyway--
> > 
> > I've (separately) started working on a patch to make it so that you can
> > add reflink and finobt to a filesystem.  Those upgrades require somewhat
> > more intensive checks of the filesystem (such as checking free space in
> > each AG), so I ended up dumping them into phase 2, since the xfs_mount
> > and buffer cache aren't fully initialized until after phase 1.
> > 
> > So, yeah, the upgrade code should move to phase2() after log zeroing and
> > before the AG scan.
> 
> Oh, whoops - 
> 
> based on this, I think that the prior patch
> [PATCH 08/10] xfs_repair: allow setting the needsrepair flag
> needs to be adjusted as well, right; we don't want to set it in phase 1
> or we might set it then abort on a dirty log and the user is stuck.
> 
> So maybe I should merge up through 
> 
> [PATCH 07/10] xfs_repair: set NEEDSREPAIR when we deliberately corrupt directories
> 
> and hold off on the rest? Or should I just hold off on the series and let
> you reassemble (again?)

Yeah, I'll push out v5 tomorrow morning with all this cleaned up.

--D

> (Am I right that the upgrade bits will need to be moved and the series resent?)
> 
> -Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-11  1:31 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
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 [this message]
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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