Wrong d_type presented by xfs_io

[Brian Foster]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:48:10AM -0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've been looking through an issue raised by Brian, regarding my RENAME_EXCHANGE
> patchset, where, apparently, the d_type of some files are reseted during the
> exchange. Brian presented an example here:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-11/msg00170.html
> 
> When trying to debug it, I've been trying to create and rename some FS objects
> to try to reproduce the issue, but, all the files I've been creating are shown
> as DT_UNKNOWN type:
> 

Hi Carlos,

I suspect you aren't using a v5 superblock. You can do that by passing
'-m crc=1' to mkfs. Does d_type work once you're on v5?

Brian

> ex:
> 
> /dev/vdb2 on /xfs/scratch type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
> 
> [root at localhost scratch]# mkdir /xfs/scratch/dir1
> 
> [root at localhost scratch]# xfs_io -c "readdir -v" /xfs/scratch/
> 
> 00000006: d_ino: 0x00000083 d_off: 0x00000200 d_reclen: 0x18 d_type: DT_UNKNOWN
> d_name: dir1
> 
> 
> [root at localhost scratch]# mknod /xfs/scratch/mybdev b 253 19
> 
> 00000008: d_ino: 0x00000084 d_off: 0x00000200 d_reclen: 0x20 d_type: DT_UNKNOWN
> d_name: mybdev
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So, anyone knows if is there any problem with xfs_io, or, if I'm doing something
> wrong here?
> 
> [root at localhost scratch]# xfs_io -V
> xfs_io version 3.2.1
> 
> 
> or maybe, we have a bug somewhere else.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Carlos
> 
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