[PATCH] xfs_repair: automatically enable -f (file) mode when needed

[Eric Sandeen]

If we specify "-f" to xfs_repair, it recognizes that it's working
on a file, and if the underlying filesystem sector size differs
such that direct IO won't work, it disables direct IO.

It's odd, though, that we'd need to specify this, and the failure
is non-obvious:

# xfs_repair /mnt/test/foo.img
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
xfs_repair: read failed: Invalid argument

I see no advantage to requirin the administrator to jump through
this hoop; why not just detect that it's a file, and move on?

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>
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diff --git a/repair/xfs_repair.c b/repair/xfs_repair.c
index 834697a..2d376be 100644
--- a/repair/xfs_repair.c
+++ b/repair/xfs_repair.c
@@ -573,6 +573,18 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
+	/* -f forces this, but let's be nice and autodetect it, as well. */
+	if (!isa_file) {
+		int		fd = libxfs_device_to_fd(x.ddev);
+		struct stat64	statbuf;
+
+		if (fstat64(fd, &statbuf) < 0)
+			do_warn(_("%s:  couldn't stat \"%s\"\n"),
+				progname, fs_name);
+		if (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode))
+			isa_file = 1;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * if the sector size of the filesystem we are trying to repair is
 	 * smaller than that of the underlying filesystem (i.e. we are repairing