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authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-02-10 18:36:40 +1100
committerTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>2007-02-10 18:36:40 +1100
commit2823945fda94e0636be573a037c45cb7b6495af2 (patch)
treeb06f13e327978cb4e44710cec46839539c394cf5 /fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
parent549054afadae44889c0b40d4c3bfb0207b98d5a0 (diff)
[XFS] Ensure a frozen filesystem has a clean log before writing the dummy
record. The current Linux XFS freeze code is a mess. We flush the metadata buffers out while we are still allowing new transactions to start and then fail to flush the dirty buffers back out before writing the unmount and dummy records to the log. This leads to problems when the frozen filesystem is used for snapshots - we do log recovery on a readonly image and often it appears that the log image in the snapshot is not correct. Hence we end up with hangs, oops and mount failures when trying to mount a snapshot image that has been created when the filesystem has not been correctly frozen. To fix this, we need to move th metadata flush to after we wait for all current transactions to complete in teh second stage of the freeze. This means that when we write the final log records, the log should be clean and recovery should never occur on a snapshot image created from a frozen filesystem. SGI-PV: 959267 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28010a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
index da255bdf526..558823a8306 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ typedef enum {
#define SYNC_REFCACHE 0x0040 /* prune some of the nfs ref cache */
#define SYNC_REMOUNT 0x0080 /* remount readonly, no dummy LRs */
#define SYNC_QUIESCE 0x0100 /* quiesce fileystem for a snapshot */
+#define SYNC_DIO_WAIT 0x0200 /* wait for direct I/O to complete */
#define SHUTDOWN_META_IO_ERROR 0x0001 /* write attempt to metadata failed */
#define SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR 0x0002 /* write attempt to the log failed */