[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Ocfs2: Handle deletion of reflinked oprhan inodes correctly.
Mark Fasheh
mfasheh at suse.com
Fri Mar 19 16:50:47 PDT 2010
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:21:10AM +0800, Tristan Ye wrote:
> Current rule of orphan dir is that all inodes in the orphan dir
> have ORPHANED_FL, otherwise we treated it as an ERROR. this rule
> works well except for some rare cases of reflink operation:
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1215
>
> The problem is introduced by the essense of how reflink and our
> orphan_scan thread were working:
>
> * Orphan_scan scan the orphan dir into a queue first, and run
> queue in a later time, we only hold the orphan_dir's lock
> during scanning.
>
> * Reflink create a oprhaned target in orphan_dir at the first
> step, and remove the targets and unset the flag at the third
> step, these two steps respectively hold the orphan_dir's lock
> themselves.
>
> Based on above semantics, there is a possibility that a reflink
> inode can be moved out of the orphan dir and have its ORPHANED_FL
> cleared before the queue is run, which leads to a ERROR in
> ocfs2_query_wipde_inode().
>
> This patch helps to judge if a orphan inode to be wiped off, which
> has NO ORPHANED_FL, is a legal alive reflinked target or not.
>
> The patch also works for failed reflinked targets from a crash or
> other failures during the reflink operation, they can be wiped off
> as desired since these failed reflinked inodes always has ORPHANED_FL
> set ondisk.
How is this? Wouldn't the failed reflink still have OCFS2_HAS_REFCOUNT_FL
set as well as OCFS2_ORPHANED_FL? In the code below, we (correctly) skip
those for delete.
Btw, other than my question above, the patch looks correct for the case of
not wiping a reflinked inode.
--Mark
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Mark Fasheh
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