On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:02:01PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Today, if we have a filesystem with stripe geometry and
> a damaged primary superblock, we will zero out stripe geometry
> if we have copied the backup.
>
> I'm guessing this might be because changing geometry with mount
> options only updates the primary, so backups aren't guaranteed
> to be current or correct.
>
> Unfortunately, that leaves us with sb 0 w/ no geom, and backups
> *with* geom, so the next repair finds the mismatch, and complains.
> (In other words, the 2nd repair does not come up clean.)_
> And ... the second repair copies the backup stripe geometry back
> into the primary!
>
> Rather than clearing stripe geometry in this case, just leave it
> at what was found in the backup super, and inform the user that this
> was done. This leaves a consistent filesystem, and gives the user
> a heads-up to double-check the result.
>
> This can all be demonstrated and tested by running xfs/030 with
> geometry set in MKFS_OPTIONS. (To really make the test pass,
> we need to filter the warning out of repair output.)
There are a few other tests that also fail due to this. Can you
please send an updated filter patch to fstests@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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