On Wed 2009-01-21 15:00:42, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:20:19PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Tue 2009-01-20 08:28:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:59:44PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > > > So far the responses from xfs folks have been disappointing, if you are > > > > > interested in bugreports i can send you some. > > > > > > > > Sure I am. It would be good if you could start testing XFS along > > > > with all the other filesystems and report anything you find. > > > > > > I think that was the issue with the debug builds. If you do this > > > testing always do it without CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG set as with that option > > > we intentionally panic on detected disk corruptions. > > > > Uhuh, *_DEBUG options are not supposed to make kernel less > > stable/robust. Should that crashing functionality be guarded with > > command line option or something? ext2 has errors=panic mount > > option... > > No, it's a debugging option that is described as: > > "Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV." > > Seriously, if you aren't trying to develop XFS stuff then *don't turn it > on*. What about this, then? Pavel --- Warn in documentation that XFS_DEBUG panics machines. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/xfs/Kconfig b/fs/xfs/Kconfig index 3f53dd1..55c98eb 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/xfs/Kconfig @@ -76,4 +76,7 @@ config XFS_DEBUG Note that the resulting code will be HUGE and SLOW, and probably not useful unless you are debugging a particular problem. + Turning this option on will result in kernel panicking any time + it detects on-disk corruption. + Say N unless you are an XFS developer, or you play one on TV. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
