From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Fanael Linithien <fanael4@gmail.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
david@fromorbit.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] xfs_repair: refuse to run if we don't recognize version or feature flags
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:26:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5565F04F.3070406@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5565EB29.4080200@gmail.com>
On 5/27/15 11:04 AM, Fanael Linithien wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure silently ignoring unknown compat features in
> xfs_repair is a good idea. Consider this ext2 example: xattr support
> is a compat flag. It's okay to rw mount a FS with xattrs on some
> ancient (or non-Linux) kernel without xattr support — everything will
> be fine, even though there's no way to access them — but if the fsck
> tool doesn't understand them, it wouldn't be able to diagnose xattr
> corruption.
Hm, good point. We have no "compat" features atm, so it's not really clear;
if nothing else, though, those features will have to go un-checked, if there
is any checking to do. So yeah, maybe best to keep it as an exclusion.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-27 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-26 22:51 [PATCH 0/5] xfsprogs May 2015 patchbomb Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 22:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs_repair: refuse to run if we don't recognize version or feature flags Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 23:49 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-05-27 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-27 14:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-05-27 15:16 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-05-27 15:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-05-27 16:04 ` Fanael Linithien
2015-05-27 16:26 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-05-27 17:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-27 15:19 ` Fanael Linithien
2015-05-27 16:42 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-27 18:15 ` [PATCH v3 " Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-27 18:42 ` Fanael Linithien
2015-05-26 22:51 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs_repair: better checking of v5 metadata fields Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 23:58 ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-27 5:44 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-31 21:32 ` Dave Chinner
2015-05-26 22:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs_repair: ensure .. is set to a sane ino value when rebuilding dir Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 22:51 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs_db: enable blockget for v5 filesystems Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 23:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-05-26 23:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-26 22:51 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs_db: enable blocktrash for checksummed filesystems Darrick J. Wong
2015-05-28 5:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
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