Hi, chris,
Is there any comment on this Forced readonly mounts on errors patchset?
thanks,
Liu Bo
On 12/03/2010 04:15 PM, liubo wrote:
Btrfs has a number of BUG_ON()s, which may lead btrfs to unpleasant panic.
Meanwhile, they are very ugly and should be handled more propriately.
There are mainly two ways to deal with these BUG_ON()s.
1. For those errors which can be handled well by callers, we just return their
error number to callers.
2. For others, We can force the filesystem readonly when it hits errors, which
is what this patchset has done. Replaced BUG_ON() with the interface provided
in this patchset, we will get error infomation via dmesg. Since btrfs is now
readonly, we can save our data safely and umount it, then a btrfsck is
recommended.
By these ways, we can protect our filesystem from panic caused by those
BUG_ONs.
We still need a incompat flag to make old kernels happy.
This patchset needs more test.
v2-v3:
- since btrfs may do log replay after crash, even it is mounted as readonly,
and we have add a readonly check at start transaction time, it needs to set
and to restore readonly flags around log replay.
v1-v2:
- in order to avoid deadlock thing, move write super stuff from error handle
path to unmount time.
- remove BTRFS_SUPER_FLAG_VALID, just use BTRFS_SUPER_FLAG_ERROR to make it
simple.
- add MS_RDONLY check at start of a transaction instead of commit transaction.
---
fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 19 ++
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 56 +-
fs/btrfs/super.c | 88
fs/btrfs/transaction.c |3 ++
4 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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