[PATCH 1/3] xfs: don't shutdown log recovery on validation errors

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:09:40AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:

 > > > I think your suggestion that non-debug systems could warn instead of
 > > > fail is a good one, but removing the verifier altogether is
 > > > inappropriate.
 > > 
 > > Changing every single verifier in a non-trivial way is not something
 > > I'm about to do for a -rc6 kernel. Removing the verifiers from log
 > > recovery just reverts to the pre-3.8 situation, so is perfectly
 > > acceptable short term solution while we do the more invasive verify
 > > changes.
 > > 
 > > > Can you make the metadump available?  I need to understand this better
 > > > before I can sign off.  Also:  Any idea how far back this one goes?
 > > 
 > > No, I can't make the metadump available to you - it was provided
 > > privately and not obfuscated and so you'd have to ask Dave for it.
 > 
 > Dave (Jones), could you make the metadump available to me?  I'd like to
 > understand this a little bit better.  I'm a bit uncomfortable with the
 > proposition that we should corrupt silently in this case...

Sorry, I don't have it any more.   I'll see if I can recreate the problem
next week and prepare another dump.

	Dave