Re: [PATCH 2/9] xfs: limit superblock corruption errors to actual corruption

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:52:22PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Today, if
> 
> xfs_sb_read_verify
>   xfs_sb_verify
>     xfs_mount_validate_sb
> 
> detects superblock corruption, it'll be extremely noisy, dumping
> 2 stacks, 2 hexdumps, etc.
> 
> This is because we call XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR in xfs_mount_validate_sb
> as well as in xfs_sb_read_verify.
> 
> Also, *any* errors in xfs_mount_validate_sb which are not corruption
> per se; things like too-big-blocksize, bad version, bad magic, v1 dirs,
> rw-incompat etc - things which do not return EFSCORRUPTED - will
> still do the whole XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR spew when xfs_sb_read_verify
> sees any error at all.  And it suggests to the user that they
> should run xfs_repair, even if the root cause of the mount failure
> is a simple incompatibility.
> 
> I'll submit that the probably-not-corrupted errors don't warrant
> this much noise, so this patch removes the warning for anything
> other than EFSCORRUPTED returns, and replaces the lower-level
> XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR with an xfs_notice().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Agreed. Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

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david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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