Re: [RFC] btrfs-progs: btrfs-corrupt-block refactor

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Hi Qu,

I think it will be a good idea to have corruption log. It should take
--log or --verbose

btrfs-corrupt-block --log=/path/to/logfile

it should record original state of target object before the
corruption. For ex: when we try to corrupt nlink field of
/data/file.txt Log should have entries like:

--
Found /data/file.txt with inode:257
Found field:nlink value:1
Corruption done.
--

This will make debugging easier if debug-tree shows same output before
and after the corruption. We can check the logs figure-out whether
corruption exactly happened on specific object/field or not.


>    "data" options are:
>      "--bytenr BYTENR"
>         Mandatory, logical address
>      "--length LENGTH"
>         Optional, default to sectorsize of the fs
>      "--mirror"
>         Optional, default to all mirror
>
--mirror  option  Is this referring to file-data alone?. If so,
including an option to target meta-data from specific mirror will be
helpful.

For example:
Setup: RAID-1 with 3 drives (both data/meta-data mirrored)
Corrupt an inode from drive-2.
Running Btrfs-check figures out drive-1,drive-3 are valid entries and
updates/fixes drive-2 entries.

Something like that possible or i miss understood something?


Cheers.
Lakshmipathi.G
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