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    [XFS] Ensure a frozen filesystem has a clean log before writing the dummy · 2823945f
    David Chinner 提交于
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    The current Linux XFS freeze code is a mess. We flush the metadata buffers
    out while we are still allowing new transactions to start and then fail to
    flush the dirty buffers back out before writing the unmount and dummy
    records to the log.
    
    This leads to problems when the frozen filesystem is used for snapshots -
    we do log recovery on a readonly image and often it appears that the log
    image in the snapshot is not correct. Hence we end up with hangs, oops and
    mount failures when trying to mount a snapshot image that has been created
    when the filesystem has not been correctly frozen.
    
    To fix this, we need to move th metadata flush to after we wait for all
    current transactions to complete in teh second stage of the freeze. This
    means that when we write the final log records, the log should be clean
    and recovery should never occur on a snapshot image created from a frozen
    filesystem.
    
    SGI-PV: 959267
    SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28010a
    Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: NDonald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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