[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Modify fsck to trust global bitmap than super block.take 3

Sunil Mushran Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com
Wed Jan 2 19:04:37 PST 2008


Tao Ma wrote:
> In resize, we update the global_bitmap first and then the super block.
> So if there is any corruption between these 2 steps, there will be a
> inconsistence. In kernel we use the information in global_bitmap,
> so fsck.ocfs2 should also trust it during the check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com>
> ---
>   
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com>

This looks correct. However, I am still confused as to how I managed to
get clean runs when testing aborted offline resize cases.



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