On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:29:55 +0800, lihaoxiang (F) wrote: > Previously, patch 6e4cc3d5eeb2dfaa055e652b5390beaa6c3d05da introduces > the function of printing the specified number of logs. But there exists > a shortage when n is larger than the total number of logs, it dumped the > duplicated records circulately. > > For example, the disk sda only has three records, but using instruction logdump > -On5, it would output the result as follow: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Journal starts at block 1, transaction 6 > Found expected sequence 6, type 1 (descriptor block) at block 1 > Found expected sequence 6, type 2 (commit block) at block 4 > No magic number at block 5: end of journal. > Found sequence 2 (not 7) at block 7: end of journal. > Found expected sequence 2, type 2 (commit block) at block 7 > Found sequence 3 (not 8) at block 8: end of journal. > Found expected sequence 3, type 1 (descriptor block) at block 8 > Found sequence 3 (not 8) at block 15: end of journal. > Found expected sequence 3, type 2 (commit block) at block 15 > Found sequence 6 (not 9) at block 1: end of journal. <---------begin loop > Found expected sequence 6, type 1 (descriptor block) at block 1 > Found sequence 6 (not 9) at block 4: end of journal. > Found expected sequence 6, type 2 (commit block) at block 4 > Found sequence 2 (not 10) at block 7: end of journal. > Found expected sequence 2, type 2 (commit block) at block 7 > logdump: short read (read 0, expected 1024) while reading journal > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/1] debugfs:fix repeated output problem with `logdump -O -n <num_trans>` commit: 9562cfca93da6d70494c3a66bddbc9d439410a34 Best regards, -- Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>