linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] add a jbd option to force an unclean journal state

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Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:01:09 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] add a jbd option to force an unclean journal
	state

  Hi,

On Tue 04-03-08 13:39:41, Josef Bacik wrote:
> jbd and I want a way to verify that I'm not screwing anything up in the 
> process, and this is what I came up with.  Basically this option would only be 
> used in the case where someone mounts an ext3 image or fs, does a specific IO 
> operation (create 100 files, write data to a few files etc), unmounts the fs 
> and remounts so that jbd does its journal recovery and then check the status of 
> the fs to make sure its exactly the way its expected to be.  I'm not entirely 
> sure how usefull of an option like this would be (or if I did it right :) ), 
> but I thought I'd throw it out there in case anybody thinks it may be useful, 
> and in case there is some case that I'm missing so I can fix it and better make 
> sure I don't mess anything up while doing stuff.  Basically this patch keeps us 
> from resetting the journal's tail/transaction sequence when we destroy the 
> journal so when we mount the fs again it will look like we didn't unmount 
> properly and recovery will occur.  Any comments are much appreciated,
  Actually, there is a different way how we've done checking like this (and
I think also more useful), at least for ext3. Basically you mounted a
filesysteem with some timeout and after the timeout, device was forced
read-only. And then you've checked that the fs is consistent after journal
replay. I think Andrew had the patches somewhere...

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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