From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: cem@kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs: handle reconnecting metadir subdirectories
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:40:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825234001.GY6072@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825063214.GE24324@lst.de>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 08:32:14AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 10:35:41PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> >
> > A longstanding weakness of the metapath repair code is that it can only
> > reattach non-directories to the metadata directory tree. Let's fix that
>
> Why was this not done before? Why is it possible now? Testcase?
I straight up forgot to implement it. And right now there's no way to
mount a filesystem with a broken subdirectory (your choices are
/rtgroups or /quota) so it didn't stand out.
Some day there might be a need to handle deeper metadata directory
trees, so I figured that I should perhaps go implement that now.
Still working on how to make a testcase work though. :/
--D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 5:34 [PATCHSET 1/2] xfs: LLM-inspired bug fixes, part 7 Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 5:34 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 18:11 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 5:34 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfs: don't stash removename operations with unknown ftype Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 18:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 5:35 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs: log the tempip after we convert it to extents format Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 5:35 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: fix parent rec lookup initialization in xrep_metapath_unlink Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 18:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 5:35 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: handle reconnecting metadir subdirectories Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 23:40 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2026-08-26 4:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-26 4:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 5:35 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: lock the healthmon when inserting unmount event Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-25 6:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-08-25 18:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-08-27 5:30 [PATCHSET v2 1/2] xfs: LLM-inspired bug fixes, part 7 Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-27 5:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: handle reconnecting metadir subdirectories Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-27 9:23 ` Anuj Gupta
2026-08-27 14:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-08-27 16:41 ` Anuj gupta
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