[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2: Disable orphan scanning for local and hard-ro mounts

[Jeff Mahoney]

Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>> There's a problem with this patch that I ran into while testing
>> 2.6.31-rc2. ocfs2_orphan_scan_stop expects that ocfs2_orphan_scan_init
>> was called. If the mount fails for any reason, ocfs2_dismount_volume
>> calls ocfs2_orphan_scan_stop. The thing is that ocfs2_dismount_volume
>> will never get called in that path after ocfs2_orphan_scan_init is
>> called, so we oops when calling cancel_delayed_work on an uninitialized
>> work queue.
>>
>> The attached patch fixes it up.
>>
>> -Jeff
> 
> Jeff, Thanks. For some reason, my mounts don't fail. ;)

Yeah, mine don't usually either, but I installed our desktop product on
one of my development nodes and gnome tries to mount everything. I have
an OCFS2 file system on a disk but the cluster isn't set up.

> My only quibble with the patch would be that ocfs2_orphan_scan_init()
> should be called before ocfs2_recovery_init(). Else we'll encounter the
> same problem if say ocfs2_recovery_init() fails.

Yup, you're right. Fixed version attached.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs
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