Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] Btrfs: introduce uuid-tree-gen field

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:41:52AM -0600, Stefan Behrens wrote:
> On 06/07/2013 16:39, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:27:51AM -0600, Stefan Behrens wrote:
> >> In order to be able to detect the case that a filesystem is mounted
> >> with an old kernel, add a uuid-tree-gen field like the free space
> >> cache is doing it. It is part of the super block and written with
> >> each commit. Old kernels do not know this field and don't update it.
> >>
> >
> > So to get around the whole crashing before we finish creating the uuid tree
> > maybe set some flag or something that doesn't actually set the
> > super->uuid_tree_generation until _after_ it finishes populating the tree, and
> > then have the scan deal with having a half populated tree.  Just an idea, but we
> > have to deal with it some way.  Thanks,
> 
> That's what the patch 7/8 is doing.
> 

Yeah I just noticed that, thanks.

Josef
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