From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] xfs: repair inode records
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 21:36:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXfxbsxl1bRwnoSO@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231211200458.GU361584@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 12:04:58PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Otherwise I'm still a bit worried about the symlink pointing to ?
> > and suspect we need a clear and documented strategy for things that
> > can change data for applications before doing something like that.
>
> For a brief second I thought about adding another ZAPPED health flag,
> like I just did for the data/attr forks. Then I realized that for
> symbolic link targets this doesn't make sense because we've lost the
> target data so there's no extended recovery that can be applied.
>
> Unfortunately this leaves me stuck because targets are arbitrary null
> terminated strings, so there's no bulletproof way to communicate "target
> has been lost, do not try to follow this path" without risking that the
> same directory actually contains a file with that name.
>
> At this point, we can't even iget the dead symlink to find the parent
> pointers so we can delete the inode from the directory tree, so that's
> also not an option.
Can't we have a zapped flag that:
a) let's it pass the verifier
b) but returns -EIO on any non-scrub access?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-12 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-07 2:38 [PATCHSET v28.1 0/9] xfs: online repair of inodes and forks Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: disable online repair quota helpers when quota not enabled Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:42 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: try to attach dquots to files before repairing them Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:42 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: add missing nrext64 inode flag check to scrub Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 5:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-07 2:42 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: repair inode records Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 5:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-11 20:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-12 5:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-12-13 1:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:43 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: zap broken inode forks Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 6:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-07 6:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-07 2:43 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: set inode sick state flags when we zap either ondisk fork Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-11 22:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:43 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: abort directory parent scrub scans if we encounter a zapped directory Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-11 19:19 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:43 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: skip the rmapbt search on an empty attr fork unless we know it was zapped Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 6:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-11 22:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 2:44 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: repair obviously broken inode modes Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-07 6:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-11 22:19 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-12-12 5:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-13 1:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
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