Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:48:33 -0600 | From | Ben Myers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xfs: return -EINVAL instead of -EUCLEAN when mounting non-xfs |
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Hey,
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 02:16:50AM +0300, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > It fixes boot panic when trying to boot from btrfs filesystem. > > kernel tries to mount as xfs and gets fatal -EUCLEAN: > > > > [ 0.170000] VFS: Cannot open root device "ubda" or unknown-block(98,0): error -117 > > [ 0.170000] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: > > [ 0.170000] 6200 1048576 ubda driver: uml-blkdev > > [ 0.170000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(98,0) > > > > init/do_mounts.c expects only -EINVAL as 'retry another' option. > > Fixes regression introduced by commit 98021821a502db347bd9c7671beeee6e8ce07ea6 > > Looks reasonable, but think xfs_readsb should simply be changed to > turn all EFSCORRUPTED returns into EINVAL if loud is not set.
I think there are some EFSCORRUPTED returns that should not result in 'retry another' behavior. E.g. mounting an xfs filesystem where super block magic is good but you have a corrupted log probably shouldn't result in a retry with ext3. It is useful to be able to distinguish between that special case of sb->sb_magic != XFS_SB_MAGIC and a truly corrupted filesystem.
Here EWRONGFS (EINVAL) in the quiet case is better than EFSCORRUPTED, but unfortunately we still can't tell EWRONGFS from other EINVAL returns in b_error. Adding a new errno as Ted suggested might make some sense.
Regards, Ben
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