linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 19:17:18 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	J Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, akpm@...l.org,
	Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

Hi!

In kernel fsck....

> --- /dev/null	2007-04-18 05:32:26.652341749 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.21logfs/fs/logfs/progs/fsck.c	2007-05-15 00:54:22.000000000 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,332 @@
> +/*
> + * fs/logfs/prog/fsck.c	- filesystem check
> + *
> + * As should be obvious for Linux kernel code, license is GPLv2
> + *
> + * Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Joern Engel
> + *
> + * In principle this could get moved to userspace.  However it might still
> + * make some sense to keep it in the kernel.  It is a pure checker and will
> + * only report problems, not attempt to repair them.
> + */

Is there version that repairs?

> +	/* Some segments are reserved.  Just pretend they were all valid */
> +	reserved = btree_lookup(&super->s_reserved_segments, segno);
> +	if (reserved)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	err = wbuf_read(sb, dev_ofs(sb, segno, 0), sizeof(sh), &sh);
> +	BUG_ON(err);

BUG is not right thing to do for media error.

> +/*
> + * fs/logfs/prog/mkfs.c	- filesystem generation
> + *
> + * As should be obvious for Linux kernel code, license is GPLv2
> + *
> + * Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Joern Engel
> + *
> + * Should get moved to userspace.
> + */

Indeed. 

> +
> +#if 0
> +/* rootdir */

Please just delete it, not comment it out like this.

							Pavel
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