Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: Revert dump version bump for 32bit projid fix

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 10/22/12 5:31 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> commit 1e309da7a4f7e2a2f456bf6b7cea4c5f1181cd36 fixed xfsdump to
>> properly save & restore the top 16 bits of a 32-bit projid, which
>> otherwise was being dropped (and restored as 0) in older xfsdump.
>>
>> The original thought was to bump the dump version, so that we know
>> whether the dump (may) have the top 16 bits filled in.  In practice
>> this would prevent older restores from restoring newer dumps, and
>> losing the top 16 bits contained in these newer dumps.
>>
>> However, in hindsight this appears to be of limited value.  I
>> propose that the dump version change is unuseful/unwanted for a
>> couple reasons:
>>
>> * There is no actual dump *format* change; the structure size
>>   is the same, and the top 16 bits were properly zeroed before; old
>>   restores will read these fixed dumps without problems and without
>>   restoring garbage.  IOW, they will behave exactly as buggily as
>>   they did before.  And worst case, if a dump containing the top 16
>>   bits is mangled by an old restore, this can be easily remedied by
>>   simply re-restoring with updated userspace.
>>
>> * We have no reliable method to know whether 32 bit project IDs are
>>   in use; the feature flag was not added to the GEOM call at the time
>>   of implementation.  Therefore we cannot reliably bump to V4 only
>>   for projid32bit filesystems, and we cannot restrict V4 restores
>>   only to projid32bit filesystems.  So the dump version is not
>>   useful for feature cross-checking purposes.
> 
> Seems reasonable. Definitely solves most of the nasty problems
> you've been juggling caused by a version bump and 32bit projid
> detection. Do we have an xfstest that verifies these assumptions are
> valid?

I'll whip up a test that tests what happens when restoring a dump
w/ all 32 bits to a filesystem w/o the feature.

I'm not sure testing a restoration of an "old" dump to a 32-bit
projid is too useful, it really just tests that the zeroed bits
in the old dump image stay zeroed.

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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