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From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
To: Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4728AA49.6020405@zabbo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472861A8.8020709@emc.com>


> The second use case is to look at the physical layout of blocks on disk
> for a specific file, use Mark Lord's write_long patches to inject a disk
> error and then read that file to make sure that we are handling disk IO
> errors correctly.  A bit obscure, but really quite useful.

Hmm, yeah, that's interesting.

> We have also used FIBMAP a few times to try and map an observed IO error
> back to a file. Really slow and painful to do, but should work on any
> file system when a better method is not supported.

We're getting off of this FIBMAP topic, but this interests me.  Can we
explore this a little?  How did you find out about the error without
having a file to associate with it?  Drive scrubbing, or some such?

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 23:37 [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 1/6][RFC] Keep FIBMAP from looking at negative block nrs Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 2/6][RFC] Allow FIBMAP to return EFBIG on large filesystems Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 3/6][RFC] Move FIBMAP logic Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 4/6][RFC] Attempt to plug race with truncate Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:36   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 5/6][RFC] Introduce FIBMAP64 Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:45   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 6/6][RFC] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement on FIBMAP Mike Waychison
2007-10-27 17:57 ` [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-27 21:45   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2007-10-29 14:10   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 16:30     ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 19:18       ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:46         ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 20:01           ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 20:00         ` Zach Brown
2007-10-31 11:06           ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-31 16:16             ` Zach Brown [this message]
2007-10-31 17:17               ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-29 19:16     ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:47       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-28  0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin

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