On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:00:17PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> Two issues have been encounted with xfs_repair and badly corrupted
> directories.
>
> 1. A huge size (inode di_size) can cause malloc which will fail.
> Patch dir_size_check.patch checks for a valid directory size
> and if it's bad, junks the directory. The di_size for a dir
> only counts the data blocks being used, not all the other
> associated metadata. This is limited to 32GB by the
> XFS_DIR2_LEAF_OFFSET value in XFS. Anything greater than this
> must be invalid.
This one looks good.
> 2. An update a while ago to xfs_repair attempts to fix invalid
> ".." entries for subdirectories where there is a valid parent
> with the appropriate entry. It was a partial fix that never
> did the full job, especially if the subdirectory was short-
> form or it has already been processed.
>
> Patch fix_dir_rebuild_without_dotdot_entry.patch creates a
> post-processing queue after the main scan to update any
> directories with an invalid ".." entry.
For this one I'll need to read the surrounding code first to do
a useful review, so it'll take some time.
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