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From: "Holger Hoffstätte" <holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Better handling of stale scrub status
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:30:48 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2014.05.20.15.30.48@googlemail.com> (raw)


As Marc Merlin recently wrote in his blog [1] scrub can sometimes leave a 
stale state file behind, making cancel/resume complain. I took a peek at 
the code and found most of the scrub state file handling fairly 
straightforward, so before I go off and start hacking, what would a 
better behaviour look like?

- delete the stale file?
- fix the file by setting the "finished" flag?
- something else entirely?

I currently lean towards fixing (and not printing an error?), but maybe 
someone else has different ideas about how this should be handled.
Any suggestions welcome..

cheers
Holger

[1] http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-04-26_Btrfs-Tips_-
Cancel-A-Btrfs-Scrub-That-Is-Already-Stopped.html


             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-20 15:30 Holger Hoffstätte [this message]
2014-05-31 21:54 ` Better handling of stale scrub status Marc MERLIN

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