On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 05:41:29PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> The xfs_repair "-t" option shouldn't be used alone. An interval must
> follow the -t option, or xfs_repair will report errors. And only
> modify reporting interval is useless, if we don't enable ag_stride.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Makes sense to me, at least given the getopt arg ("t:") in xfs_repair.c.
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know why we must need the -t option for xfs_repair, I can't
> find any description to explain it. But I can find an explanation
> about why we use "-t" for _xfs_check.
>
> # xfs_check runs out of memory on large files, so even providing the test
> # option (-t) to avoid indexing the free space trees doesn't make it pass on
> # large filesystems. Avoid it.
>
> The -t option for xfs_repair is totally different with it for
> xfs_check, maybe -m option is more useful if we think about the
> memory size.
>
> And the -t option need to work with -o ag_stride together. I'd like
> to remove the "-t" option directly, due to I really don't know why
> we need it, or how to give it a proper number.
>
> If the original author knows why we need it, and can give me some
> suggestions, please help.
>
> Thanks,
> Zorro
>
> common/xfs | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/xfs b/common/xfs
> index ecf54bbf..61a3c2d9 100644
> --- a/common/xfs
> +++ b/common/xfs
> @@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ _scratch_xfs_repair()
> SCRATCH_OPTIONS="-l$SCRATCH_LOGDEV"
> [ "$USE_EXTERNAL" = yes -a ! -z "$SCRATCH_RTDEV" ] && \
> SCRATCH_OPTIONS=$SCRATCH_OPTIONS" -r$SCRATCH_RTDEV"
> - [ "$LARGE_SCRATCH_DEV" = yes ] && SCRATCH_OPTIONS=$SCRATCH_OPTIONS" -t"
> $XFS_REPAIR_PROG $SCRATCH_OPTIONS $* $SCRATCH_DEV
> }
>
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> 2.14.4
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