Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] xfs_scrub: fix read verify disk error handling strategy

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On 10/15/19 12:23 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The error handling strategy for media errors is totally bogus.  First of
> all, short reads are entirely unhandled -- when we encounter a short
> read, we know the disk was able to feed us the beginning of what we
> asked for, so we need to single-step through the remainder to try to
> capture the exact error that we hit.
> 
> Second, an actual IO error causes the entire region to be marked bad
> even though it could be just a few MB of a multi-gigabyte extent that's
> bad.  Therefore, single-step each block in the IO request until we stop
> getting IO errors to find out if all the blocks are bad or if it's just
> that extent.
> 
> Third, fix the fact that the loop updates its own counter variables with
> the length fed to read(), which doesn't necessarily have anything to do
> with the amount of data that the read actually produced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: fix errors_seen bogosity

changing io_error to read_error on commit (since io_error != EIO is odd?)

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>




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