[Ocfs2-devel] Do filesystem need to turn RO on dx corruptions?

[Sunil Mushran]

On 06/07/2011 08:41 AM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> There have been index tree corruptions, where the directory entries
> are correct however the index directory is not. In this case, the
> filesystem turns read-only where as all the information to complete
> the operation is still available because the primary directory
> structure is sane. The ocfs2 module could just disable indexed
> directory for this directory and continue handling the operation like
> the normal directories without indexes. Of course, it still writes the
> warning message, to run fsck, to the kernel log  but avoid the RO
> filesystem which halt all I/O writes.
>
> Th ocfs2-tools fix is posted at:
> http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-tools-devel/2011-May/003812.html
> However, it would need changes for indexed directory rebuilds.
>
> Let me know what you think.

I think it looks good. Though I would prefer if Mark also acked this
as he knows dxdir best.