As Michael reported:
after updating to f2fs-tools 1.12.0, a routine fsck of my file systems
took quite a while and output ten-thousands instances of the following
line:
> [FIX] (fsck_chk_inode_blk: 954) --> Regular: 0xXYZ reset i_gc_failures from 0x1 to 0x00
The reason is that:
We start to support reseting .i_gc_failures's value to zero in fsck since
91bb7b21f740 ("f2fs-tools: fix to reset i_gc_failures offline"), this is
because if .i_gc_failures continues increasing and exceed threshold, it
can make f2fs break atomic_write semantics during GC, so I added that
patch to avoid such condition.
But the problem here is even .i_gc_failures's value is one which was
initialized duing inode creation by old kernel, and it never be increased
by GC flow, we will still trigger such fix in fsck. I think it's not
necessary.
As Jaegeuk suggested, we introduce a new preen mode 2 to handle such
condition:
- 2: same as 0, but skip some checks for old kernel
Suggested-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Michael Laß <bevan@bi-co.net>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
}
i_gc_failures = le16_to_cpu(node_blk->i.i_gc_failures);
- if (ftype == F2FS_FT_REG_FILE && i_gc_failures) {
+
+ /*
+ * old kernel initialized i_gc_failures as 0x01, in preen mode 2,
+ * let's skip repairing.
+ */
+ if (ftype == F2FS_FT_REG_FILE && i_gc_failures &&
+ (c.preen_mode != PREEN_MODE_2 || i_gc_failures != 0x01)) {
DBG(1, "Regular Inode: 0x%x [%s] depth: %d\n\n",
le32_to_cpu(node_blk->footer.ino), en,
enum {
PREEN_MODE_0,
PREEN_MODE_1,
+ PREEN_MODE_2,
PREEN_MODE_MAX
};
/* preen mode has different levels:
* 0: default level, the same as -a
* 1: check meta
+ * 2: same as 0, but will skip some
+ * check for old kernel
*/
if (optarg[0] == '-' || !is_digits(optarg) ||
optind == argc) {
c.preen_mode = PREEN_MODE_0;
else if (c.preen_mode >= PREEN_MODE_MAX)
c.preen_mode = PREEN_MODE_MAX - 1;
- if (c.preen_mode == PREEN_MODE_0)
+ if (c.preen_mode == PREEN_MODE_0 ||
+ c.preen_mode == PREEN_MODE_2)
c.auto_fix = 1;
MSG(0, "Info: Fix the reported corruption in "
"preen mode %d\n", c.preen_mode);