On Tue 17-01-17 15:14:21, Vishal Verma wrote:
> Your note on the online repair does raise another tangentially related
> topic. Currently, if there are badblocks, writes via the bio submission
> path will clear the error (if the hardware is able to remap the bad
> locations). However, if the filesystem is mounted eith DAX, even
> non-mmap operations - read() and write() will go through the dax paths
> (dax_do_io()). We haven't found a good/agreeable way to perform
> error-clearing in this case. So currently, if a dax mounted filesystem
> has badblocks, the only way to clear those badblocks is to mount it
> without DAX, and overwrite/zero the bad locations. This is a pretty
> terrible user experience, and I'm hoping this can be solved in a better
> way.
Please remind me, what is the problem with DAX code doing necessary work to
clear the error when it gets EIO from memcpy on write?
Honza
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Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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