Hello -
New iteration (v4) of this series...
Current xfs_repair uses a brute force approach to find a valid
secondary sb. This series optimizes the secondary sb search, using
similar method to determine geometry as that of xfs_mkfs. If the
faster method fails in its search, fall back to original brute force
slower search.
version history
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v1: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-02/msg00304.html
v2: patch 2 whitespace fixups
v3: patch 2 correct functionality; style fixups
v4: patch 1,2 properly see to style and whitespace fixups
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patch 1 has some general infrastructure adjustments, moving general
topology functions from mkfs to libxcmd.
patch 2 adds the new secondary superblock search method.
Questions, comments are welcome.
Thanks-
Bill
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