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Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: automatically enable -f (file) mode when needed

To: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs_repair: automatically enable -f (file) mode when needed
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:19:49 -0500
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivered-to: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20150619132004.GD12833@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <5583383D.4070906@xxxxxxxxxx> <20150619132004.GD12833@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 6/19/15 8:20 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:29:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> If we specify "-f" to xfs_repair, it recognizes that it's working
>> on a file, and if the underlying filesystem sector size differs
>> such that direct IO won't work, it disables direct IO.
>>
>> It's odd, though, that we'd need to specify this, and the failure
>> is non-obvious:
>>
>> # xfs_repair /mnt/test/foo.img
>> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
>> xfs_repair: read failed: Invalid argument
>>
>> I see no advantage to requirin the administrator to jump through
>> this hoop; why not just detect that it's a file, and move on?
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/repair/xfs_repair.c b/repair/xfs_repair.c
>> index 834697a..2d376be 100644
>> --- a/repair/xfs_repair.c
>> +++ b/repair/xfs_repair.c
>> @@ -573,6 +573,18 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
>>              exit(1);
>>      }
>>  
>> +    /* -f forces this, but let's be nice and autodetect it, as well. */
>> +    if (!isa_file) {
>> +            int             fd = libxfs_device_to_fd(x.ddev);
>> +            struct stat64   statbuf;
>> +
>> +            if (fstat64(fd, &statbuf) < 0)
>> +                    do_warn(_("%s:  couldn't stat \"%s\"\n"),
>> +                            progname, fs_name);
>> +            if (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode))
>> +                    isa_file = 1;
> 
> We probably shouldn't query the statbuf if the stat call failed (who
> knows what's in there). Otherwise this seems like a good change to me.

yeargh, right, last-minute decision to not fail on the failed stat.

Sigh.  V2 coming.

(I think Jan is working on a more wholesale cleanup of this crap, but in the
meantime I think maybe a couple targeted fixes to get things going are probably
ok).

-Eric

> Brian
> 
>> +    }
>> +
>>      /*
>>       * if the sector size of the filesystem we are trying to repair is
>>       * smaller than that of the underlying filesystem (i.e. we are repairing
>>
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