From: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: <dsterba@suse.cz>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: Force 'btrfs dev scan' not using old libblkid cache
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:17:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <534C888D.1080509@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140414162919.GO29256@twin.jikos.cz>
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: Force 'btrfs dev scan' not using old
libblkid cache
From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: 2014年04月15日 00:29
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:30:21PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> 'btrfs scan' uses libblkid to scan devices by default, and libblkid uses
>> cache to reduce the probe.
>>
>> But if operations below is done in less than 2 seconds(BLKID_PROBE_MIN),
>> 'btrfs scan' will still use the uncorrect cache and scan on the deleted device.
>> 0. /dev/sda[1-4] mounted on /mnt using single data/metadata
>> 1. btrfs dev scan
>> 2. btrfs dev del /dev/sda3 /mnt
>> 3. btrfs dev scan
>>
>> Since the cache made by step 1 is still validated, step 3 will use the
>> cache and consider /dev/sda3 as a btrfs filesystem and try to scan it.
>> But the superblock(at least the first one) is wiped and failed to scan,
>> a error message, which can be avoided and is unneeded, is output.
>>
>> This patch will force scan_for_btrfs() not to use cache to avoid the
>> problem.
>> --- a/utils.c
>> +++ b/utils.c
>> @@ -2057,7 +2057,8 @@ int btrfs_scan_lblkid(int update_kernel)
>> blkid_cache cache = NULL;
>> char path[PATH_MAX];
>>
>> - if (blkid_get_cache(&cache, 0) < 0) {
>> + /* No to use libblkid cache to avoid old data */
>> + if (blkid_get_cache(&cache, "/dev/null") < 0) {
> This effectively avoid the blkid cache for all devices but the point of
> blkid was to use it so repeated probes are not done.
>
> I think it's not right to skip the whole cache because one entry may be
> stale, more that we know which one and when.
I totally agree with that.
>
> We should rather explicitly invalidate the removed device after delete,
> I don't what's the right way to do that. Maybe blkid_do_probe() or
> blkid_gc_cache()
But the problem is, libblkid does not provide such API to invalidate one
entry of cache.
blkid_gc_cache() will only remove non-exsist device cache, and
blkid_do_probe() seems not using/update the cache,
so I used "/dev/null" as cache to avoid the cache completly.
I'll try to dig the libblkid codes deeper to find a method to invalidate
an entry.
Thanks,
Qu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-10 7:30 [PATCH] btrfs-progs: Force 'btrfs dev scan' not using old libblkid cache Qu Wenruo
2014-04-10 7:37 ` Anand Jain
2014-04-14 16:29 ` David Sterba
2014-04-15 1:17 ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2014-04-16 1:24 ` Qu Wenruo
2014-04-16 2:09 ` Qu Wenruo
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