On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:21:52PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote: > On 05/27/13 01:38, Dave Chinner wrote: > >From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > >A long time ago in a galaxy far away.... > > > >.. the was a commit made to fix some ilinux specific "fragmented > >buffer" log recovery problem: > > > >http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=archive/xfs-import.git;a=commitdiff;h=b29c0bece51da72fb3ff3b61391a391ea54e1603 > > > >That problem occurred when a contiguous dirty region of a buffer was > >split across across two pages of an unmapped buffer. It's been a > >long time since that has been done in XFS, and the changes to log > >the entire inode buffers for CRC enabled filesystems has > >re-introduced that corner case. > > > >And, of course, it turns out that the above commit didn't actually > >fix anything - it just ensured that log recovery is guaranteed to > >fail when this situation occurs. And now for the gory details. > > > ... > > Thanks for the great walk through of the problem. > > Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx> Applied. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
