Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] xfs_db: sanitize geometry on load

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On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 08:59:00AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/14/17 6:53 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> >> I do think that mere mortal invocations via xfs_admin need to be
> >> handled in this "ignore agcount" case, though...
> >>
> > We're talking about invocations intended to modify things (i.e., version
> > flags, fs uuid, etc.), right? If so, wouldn't we want those things to
> > fail if the superblock is busted?
> 
> Yes - I'm saying that if xfs_db continues with only 1 ag, those tools
> will not work as expected.  (they normally modify all superblocks).
> 

Right..

> setting exitcode to 1 in the corrupted agcount case would allow
> xfs_admin to return failure as well, for example.
> 

Ok, that makes sense to me. I wasn't sure if by "handled," you meant we
wanted those operations to try and do something useful in this
situation.

Brian

> -Eric
> 
> > Brian
> > 
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