On 06/04/13 21:09, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> There are several constraints that inode allocation and unlink logging impose on log recovery. These all stem from the fact that inode alloc/unlink are logged in buffers, but all other inode changes are logged in inode items. Hence there are ordering constraints that recovery must follow to ensure the correct result occurs. As it turns out, this ordering has been working mostly by chance than good management. The existing code moves all buffers except cancelled buffers to the head of the list, and everything else to the tail of the list. The problem with this is that is interleaves inode items with the buffer cancellation items, and hence whether the inode item in an cancelled buffer gets replayed is essentially left to chance. Further, this ordering causes problems for log recovery when inode CRCs are enabled. It typically replays the inode unlink buffer long before it replays the inode core changes, and so the CRC recorded in an unlink buffer is going to be invalid and hence any attempt to validate the inode in the buffer is going to fail. Hence we really need to enforce the ordering that the inode alloc/unlink code has expected log recovery to have since inode chunk de-allocation was introduced back in 2003... Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
