Hi Brian, On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 02:38:04PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:56:17PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > > sb_fdblocks will be updated lazily if lazysbcount is enabled, > > therefore when shrinking the filesystem sb_fdblocks could be > > larger than sb_dblocks and xfs_validate_sb_write() would fail. > > > > Even for growfs case, it'd be better to update lazy sb counters > > immediately to reflect the real sb counters. > > > > Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 8 ++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c > > index a2a407039227..2e490fb75832 100644 > > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c > > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c > > @@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ xfs_growfs_data_private( > > nb - mp->m_sb.sb_dblocks); > > if (id.nfree) > > xfs_trans_mod_sb(tp, XFS_TRANS_SB_FDBLOCKS, id.nfree); > > + > > + /* > > + * update in-core counters now to reflect the real numbers > > + * (especially sb_fdblocks) > > + */ > > Could you update the comment to explain why we do this? For example: > > "Sync sb counters now to reflect the updated values. This is > particularly important for shrink because the write verifier will fail > if sb_fdblocks is ever larger than sb_dblocks." > Thanks for the review/suggestion! I updated the comment in "[PATCH v6 6/7] xfs: support shrinking unused space in the last AG", since shrinking functionality is somewhat landed after [PATCH 6/7]... If that looks worse than changing directly here, I will shift/update the comment in the next version. Thanks, Gao Xiang > Brian >