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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com>
Cc: Haotian Li <lihaotian9@huawei.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	"harshad shirwadkar," <harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com>,
	linfeilong <linfeilong@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Try again to solve unreliable io case
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:46:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YILrxJoOA1reNhMq@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1eb6441-9081-530c-63d8-1987048b2011@huawei.com>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 10:18:09AM +0800, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> Actually, we have met the problem in ipsan situation.
> When exec 'fsck -a <remote-device>', short-term fluctuations or
> abnormalities may occur on the network. Despite the driver has
> do the best effort, some IO errors may occur. So add retrying in
> e2fsprogs can further improve the reliability of the repair
> process.

But why doesn't this happen when the file system is mounted, and why
is that acceptable?   And why not change the driver to do more retries?

   		      	      	  - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-23 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20  7:18 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Try again to solve unreliable io case Haotian Li
2021-04-20 15:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-22 13:03   ` Zhiqiang Liu
2021-04-20 16:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-23  2:18   ` Zhiqiang Liu
2021-04-23 15:46     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2021-04-24  4:46       ` Zhiqiang Liu
2021-05-10  3:35         ` Zhiqiang Liu

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