Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] xfs_db: add inobtcnt upgrade path

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On 11/19/20 7:05 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 03:05:42PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:

...

>> so this seems to have exposed a hole in how repair deals with unknown features
>> when the inprogress bit is set.
>>
>> And TBH scampering off to find backup superblocks to "repair" an inprogress
>> filesystem seems like ... not the right thing to do after a feature upgrade.
>>
>> I'm not sure what's better, but 
>>
>>> bad primary superblock - filesystem mkfs-in-progress bit set !!!
>>
>> seems ... unexpected for this purpose.
> 
> Yeah.  Dave suggested that I use an incompat flag for this, so I think
> I'll do that instead since inprogress is such a mess.

And I'll try to get to validating V5 features earlier in the repair cycle ...

-Eric



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