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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:07:53 -0800 From: harshad shirwadkar <harshadshirwadkar@...il.com> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] ext4: Various fixes of ext4 handling of fs errors Thanks! I ran smoke tests (-c 4k -g quick) on this series and there were no regressions for me as well. - Harshad On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:37 AM Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote: > > Hello, > > this patches addresses problems in handling of filesystem errors in ext4. > When we hit metadata error, we want to store information about the error > in the superblock. Currently we do it through direct superblock modification > which can lead to lost information, checksum failures, or DIF/DIX failures. > Fix various races in the error handling so that the superblock update is > reliable. > > The patches have passed xfstests for me in various configurations and some > targetted manual testing of the error handling. > > Honza
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