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Subject: ocfs2: add feature document for online file check
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From: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: ocfs2: add feature document for online file check
This document describes the OCFS2 online file check feature.
OCFS2 is often used in high-availaibility systems. However, OCFS2 usually
converts the filesystem to read-only on errors. This may not be
necessary, since turning the filesystem read-only would affect other
running processes as well, decreasing availability. Then, a mount option
(errors=continue) was introduced, which would return the EIO to the
calling process and terminate furhter processing so that the filesystem is
not corrupted further. The filesystem is not converted to read-only, and
the problematic file's inode number is reported in the kernel log. The
user can try to check/fix this file via online filecheck feature.
Signed-off-by: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt | 95 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 95 insertions(+)
diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
--- /dev/null
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+ OCFS2 online file check
+ -----------------------
+
+This document will describe OCFS2 online file check feature.
+
+Introduction
+============
+OCFS2 is often used in high-availaibility systems. However, OCFS2 usually
+converts the filesystem to read-only on errors. This may not be necessary, since
+turning the filesystem read-only would affect other running processes as well,
+decreasing availability. Then, a mount option (errors=continue) was introduced,
+which would return the EIO to the calling process and terminate furhter
+processing so that the filesystem is not corrupted further. The filesystem is
+not converted to read-only, and the problematic file's inode number is reported
+in the kernel log. The user can try to check/fix this file via online filecheck
+feature.
+
+Scope
+=====
+This effort is to check/fix small issues which may hinder day-to-day operations
+of a cluster filesystem by turning the filesystem read-only. The scope of
+checking/fixing is at the file level, initially for regular files and eventually
+to all files (including system files) of the filesystem.
+
+In case of directory to file links is incorrect, the directory inode is
+reported as erroneous.
+
+This feature is not suited for extravagant checks which involve dependency of
+other components of the filesystem, such as but not limited to, checking if the
+bits for file blocks in the allocation has been set. In case of such an error,
+the offline fsck should/would be recommended.
+
+Finally, such an operation/feature should not be automated lest the filesystem
+may end up with more damage than before the repair attempt. So, this has to
+be performed using user interaction and consent.
+
+User interface
+==============
+When there are errors in the OCFS2 filesystem, they are usually accompanied
+by the inode number which caused the error. This inode number would be the
+input to check/fix the file.
+
+There is a sysfs file for each OCFS2 file system mounting:
+
+ /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+
+Here, <devname> indicates the name of OCFS2 volumn device which has been already
+mounted. The file above would accept inode numbers. This could be used to
+communicate with kernel space, tell which file(inode number) will be checked or
+fixed. Currently, three operations are supported, which includes checking
+inode, fixing inode and setting the size of result record history.
+
+1. If you want to know what error exactly happened to <inode> before fixing, do
+
+ # echo "CHECK <inode>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+ # cat /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+
+The output is like this:
+ INO TYPE DONE ERROR
+39502 0 1 GENERATION
+
+<INO> lists the inode numbers.
+<TYPE> is what kind of operation you've done, 0 for inode check,1 for inode fix.
+<DONE> indicates whether the operation has been finished.
+<ERROR> says what kind of errors was found. For the detailed error numbers,
+please refer to the file linux/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.h.
+
+2. If you determine to fix this inode, do
+
+ # echo "FIX <inode>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+ # cat /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+
+The output is like this:
+ INO TYPE DONE ERROR
+39502 1 1 SUCCESS
+
+This time, the <ERROR> column indicates whether this fix is successful or not.
+
+3. The record cache is used to store the history of check/fix result. Its
+defalut size is 10, and can be adjust between the range of 10 ~ 100. You can
+adjust the size like this:
+
+ # echo "SET <size>" > /sys/fs/ocfs2/<devname>/filecheck
+
+Fixing stuff
+============
+On receivng the inode, the filesystem would read the inode and the
+file metadata. In case of errors, the filesystem would fix the errors
+and report the problems it fixed in the kernel log. As a precautionary measure,
+the inode must first be checked for errors before performing a final fix.
+
+The inode and the result history will be maintained temporarily in a
+small linked list buffer which would contain the last (N) inodes
+fixed/checked, the detailed errors which were fixed/checked are printed in the
+kernel log.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from ghe@xxxxxxxx are
ocfs2-export-ocfs2_kset-for-online-file-check.patch
ocfs2-sysfile-interfaces-for-online-file-check.patch
ocfs2-sysfile-interfaces-for-online-file-check-fix.patch
ocfs2-create-remove-sysfile-for-online-file-check.patch
ocfs2-check-fix-inode-block-for-online-file-check.patch
ocfs2-add-feature-document-for-online-file-check.patch
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