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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/8] libxlog: fix log buffer alignment
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 10:07:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518BBBA5.3060502@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130501001714.GH10481@dastard>

On 04/30/13 19:17, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> The libxlog sync changed the way log buffers used in recovery are
> aligned to sector sizes. The old code used to check for a zero log
> sector size and not do any alignment - this check was removed from
> the kernel code because there is always log sector size configured.
> It turns out that userspace *never* sets the log sector size, so
> userspace has always simply ignored the alignment in log replay
> (oops!).
>
> This problem manifested itself as detecting a freshly mkfs'd
> filesystem as having a totally zeroed log and hence xfs_check was
> emitting output and hence xfstests was refusing to run.
>
> This patch correctly configures the callers that use the log
> recovery code so that the log sector size is set appropriately and
> ensures that log recovery operates as expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-09 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130430121300.GB10481@dastard>
2013-05-01  0:17 ` [PATCH 9/8] libxlog: fix log buffer alignment Dave Chinner
2013-05-09 15:07   ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-05-01  6:30 ` [PATCH 10/8] xfsdb: re-instate DA btree node headers Dave Chinner
2013-05-09 15:23   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-05-09 16:21     ` Mark Tinguely
2013-05-01  6:31 ` [PATCH 11/8] xfs_logprint: fix continuation transactions Dave Chinner
2013-05-09 14:59   ` Mark Tinguely

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