Enabling lazy counters damages filesystem

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Apr 28 21:05:49 CDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:51:30PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > Actually, 3.1.0 was the first release with the fix to xfs_db that
> > prevents this problem.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dave.
> 
> not so sure:

Yeah, you are right. I was thinking that xfs_db did the feature bit
modifications, then repair just fixed up the accounting. but repair
does both in this case. I should remember code that I wrote years
ago, but for some reason it all seems to be a little bit hazy...

Let me go look at your repair patch again ;)

Cheers,

dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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