[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Initalize bitmap_cpg of ocfs2_super to be the maximum,take 1

tao.ma tao.ma at oracle.com
Tue Nov 20 17:15:06 PST 2007


Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:22:33PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:14:18PM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>>     
>>> We encountered this during offline resize.
>>>
>>> While fsck.ocfs2 was updated to fix this issue, we never
>>> did address the same in mkfs.
>>>
>>> As the chances that a user will encounter this is fairly low,
>>> we could always bail online resize if it encountered this issue.
>>> (A dirty read of the global bitmap from tune should suffice.)
>>>
>>> If so, ask user to run fsck.
>>>       
>> Yeah, that's fine by me. We need to fix it in mkfs.ocfs2 though, before or
>> at the same time this patch series goes in.
>>     
>
> Ok, just realized that Tao has those patches in the ocfs2-tools series -
> great.
>
> Tao, just let us know if you tested the file system on a very small fs
> created with the updated mkfs.ocfs2. If you haven't, please do and in any
> case provide precise details as to how it was tested.
>   
I have tested in some cases, but I would like to add a new script in 
ocfs2-test so that you can see the more details about it. ;)




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