Re: BUG REPORT: XFS LOG FORWARD COMPATIBILITY PROBLEM

[Eddy Zhao <eddy.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Eric:

 

>
> A tool that can be very helpful here is "pahole" found in the dwarves
> package:
>

Nice tool.

>
> So just to be clear, on 2.6.28, arm eabi logs replay fine on x86_64?
>

I don't have x86_64 machine at hand. Replay arm eabi log on ia32 machine "seems" success (mount "successfully" returns). Actually I guess that's because 2.6.28 XFS running on ia32 misinterprets unpacked xfs_inode_log_format produced by arm as xfs_inode_log_format_64. And there must be something silently goes wrong on disk after replaying the log.

During fixing the problem, I find it is difficult to change the code to commit packed log item (restricted by xfs_log_iovec_t mechanism). If we could somehow change this piece of code to use packed structure. The endianess problem could be solved by add an byte-swap option to xfs_repair (like e2fsck "-s"). Then we solve the xfs-log-cant-migrate-between-archs problem.

 

Thanks
Eddy