linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Set BBITMAP_CORRUPT_BIT when failing to read the allocation bitmaph

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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:14:30 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Wang Shilong <wshilong@....com>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
        Liu Bo <bo.liu@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ext4: Set BBITMAP_CORRUPT_BIT when failing to read the
 allocation bitmaph

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 01:37:23AM +0000, Wanig Shilong wrote:
>   Yup, that patch have been used in Lustre deployment from RHEL6 and RHEL7 for years.
> I think what Liu Bo tried to fix is a BUG.h
>   If you agreed, I could send our improved patch for bitmap corruptions handling  to upstream.

Yes, please send your patch out to the list so we can look at the two
take the best one.

(For one thing, we probably want to do the same thing for the inode
allocation bitmap.)

Thanks,

					- Ted