From: Tetsuhiro Kohada <kohada.t2@gmail.com>
To: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Cc: kohada.tetsuhiro@dc.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
mori.takahiro@ab.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
motai.hirotaka@aj.mitsubishielectric.co.jp,
'Namjae Jeon' <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] exfat: remove EXFAT_SB_DIRTY flag
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:22:21 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a93d1a1-dc34-f799-240e-843d7f021bbf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500801d64572$0bdd2940$23977bc0$@samsung.com>
>> I mentioned rmdir as an example.
>> However, this problem is not only with rmdirs.
>> VOL_DIRTY remains when some functions abort with an error.
>> In original, VOL_DIRTY is not cleared even if performe 'sync'.
>> With this patch, it ensures that VOL_DIRTY will be cleared by 'sync'.
>>
>> Is my description insufficient?
>
> I understood what you said. However, it is a natural result
> when deleting the related code with EXFAT_SB_DIRTY flag.
>
> So I thought it would be better to separate it into new problems
> related to VOL_DIRTY-set under not real errors.
I see.
It seems that it is better to consider separately when consistency is corrupted and when it is kept.
>> BTW
>> Even with this patch applied, VOL_DIRTY remains until synced in the above
>> case.
>> It's not easy to reproduce as rmdir, but I'll try to fix it in the future.
>
> I think it's not a problem not to clear VOL_DIRTY under real errors,
> because VOL_DIRTY is just like a hint to note that write was not finished clearly.
>
> If you mean there are more situation like ENOTEMPTY you mentioned,
> please make new patch to fix them.
Hmm.
VOL_DIRTY is easily cleared by another write operation.
For that purpose, I think MediaFailure is more appropriate.
BR
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Tetsuhiro Kohada <kohada.t2@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-06-16 2:18 ` [PATCH v3] exfat: remove EXFAT_SB_DIRTY flag Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-06-16 23:55 ` Namjae Jeon
2020-06-17 7:20 ` Sungjong Seo
2020-06-17 8:41 ` Namjae Jeon
2020-06-18 8:36 ` Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-06-18 13:11 ` Sungjong Seo
2020-06-19 4:22 ` Tetsuhiro Kohada [this message]
2020-07-10 7:36 ` Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-08-08 17:47 ` Sungjong Seo
2020-08-12 9:19 ` Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-08-13 4:03 ` Namjae Jeon
2020-08-18 1:20 ` Tetsuhiro Kohada
2020-06-16 6:16 Markus Elfring
2020-06-16 14:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
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