linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:16:09 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>
To:	Ric Wheeler <ric@....com>
CC:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP


> The second use case is to look at the physical layout of blocks on disk
> for a specific file, use Mark Lord's write_long patches to inject a disk
> error and then read that file to make sure that we are handling disk IO
> errors correctly.  A bit obscure, but really quite useful.

Hmm, yeah, that's interesting.

> We have also used FIBMAP a few times to try and map an observed IO error
> back to a file. Really slow and painful to do, but should work on any
> file system when a better method is not supported.

We're getting off of this FIBMAP topic, but this interests me.  Can we
explore this a little?  How did you find out about the error without
having a file to associate with it?  Drive scrubbing, or some such?

- z
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