I hadn't realised that check_file_exists() also checked that it was
a regular file, which we don't want for the couple of uses I recently
added.
This patch adds an optional arg must_be_regular_file, and defaults
it to true, preserving the original behaviour. The recent additions
have this set to false.
Repair was falling back to non-repair behaviour if it thought the roots
were ok. Now if --repair is specified the same dumping code is always
executed.
metadata_emitter is actually a visitor that passes on it's data
to an encapsulated emitter object.
metadata_emitter -> metadata_emit_visitor
metadata_tree_emitter -> metadata_tree_emit_visitor
The first pass of the repair process scans all metadata working out the
largest orphan btrees. This scan doesn't use as much validation as
the btree_walk function which subsequently gets called.
This patch catches any exceptions thrown by the btree walk function
and removes that btree from consideration.
We've had a trickle of users who accidentally activate the same pool on a
VM and host at the same time. Typically the host doesn't do any IO, but
the kernel will still rewrite the superblock on shutdown. This leaves
the superblock pointing to very out of date btree roots and so we get
massive metadata loss.
This patch changes thin_repair, and thin_dump --repair. They now hunt
for the most recent, undamaged and consistent roots of the device and
mapping trees, and use that as the starting point of the repair.
You need to apply doc/bm-journal.patch to create the journal.
thin_journal_check confirms that if the machine had crashed at any time
during the test run no metadata corruption would have occured.
There is a failure while compiling with libc musl:
[snip]
|./block-cache/io_engine.h:18:17: error: expected
unqualified-id before numeric constant
| unsigned const PAGE_SIZE = 4096;
[snip]
The musl defeines macro PAGE_SIZE, undef it conditionally
could fix the issue.
http://musl.openwall.narkive.com/tO8vrHdP/why-musl-define-page-size
Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
