On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 06:44:35PM +0800, Yang Joseph wrote:
> xfs_repair should not touch non-xfs mountpoints in platform_check_mount().
> If non-xfs mountpoints can be filtered out, the dead fuse mountpoint can
> never block our xfs_repair. The following patch can fix my problem and not
> add dangerous option to xfs_repair.
>
> thx,
>
> Yang Honggang
>
Should be properly indented, but it looks fair to me. There is no reason
xfsprogs should act upon non-xfs mount points afaik.
> -------------------------new patch----------------------
> diff --git a/libxfs/linux.c b/libxfs/linux.c
> index 0bace3e..6ad24ce 100644
> --- a/libxfs/linux.c
> +++ b/libxfs/linux.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static int max_block_alignment;
> #endif
>
> #define PROC_MOUNTED "/proc/mounts"
> +#define MNTTYPE_XFS "xfs"
>
> /*
> * Check if the filesystem is mounted. Be verbose if asked, and
> @@ -78,6 +79,9 @@ platform_check_mount(char *name, char *block, struct stat
> *s, int flags)
> return 1;
> }
> while ((mnt = getmntent(f)) != NULL) {
> + /* filter out non xfs mountpoint */
> + if (strncmp(mnt->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_XFS,
> strlen(mnt->mnt_type)))
> + continue;
> if (stat(mnt->mnt_dir, &mst) < 0)
> continue;
> if (mst.st_dev != s->st_rdev)
> -------------------------new patch end-----------------
>
> On 02/25/2018 06:04 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:56:44AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > On 2/24/18 5:23 AM, Yang Joseph wrote:
> > > > hello,
> > > >
> > > > Before the repair process, xfs_repair will check if user specified device already
> > > > has a writable mountpoint. And it will stat all the mountpoints of the system. If there
> > > > is a dead mountpoint, this checking will be blocked and xfs_repair will enter 'D' state.
> > So why is the mount point dead?
> >
> > That kinda means that the filesystem is still mounted, but something
> > has hung somewhere and the filesystem may still have active
> > references to the underlying device and be doing stuff that is
> > modifying the filesystem....
> >
> > And if the device is still busy, then you aren't going to be able to
> > mount the repaired device, anyway, because the block device is still
> > busy...
> >
> > > That sounds like a bug worth fixing, but I am much
> > > less excited about adding options which could do serious damage
> > > to a filesystem.
> > TO me it sounds like something that should be fixed by a reboot, not
> > by adding dangerous options to xfs_repair...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave.
>
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