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Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies
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J. Bruce Fields |
Subject: |
Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:05:11 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:57:13PM -0800, Anand Avati wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:41:41PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > What if we have an ioctl or a process personality flag where a broken
> > > > application can tell the file system "I'm broken, please give me a
> > > > degraded telldir/seekdir cookie"? That way we don't penalize programs
> > > > that are doing the right thing, while providing some accomodation for
> > > > programs who are abusing the telldir cookie.
> > >
> > > Yeah, if there's a simple way to do that, maybe it would be worth it.
> >
> > Doing this as an ioctl which gets called right after opendir, i.e
> > (ignoring error checking):
> >
> > DIR *dir = opendir("/foo/bar/baz");
> > ioctl(dirfd(dir), EXT4_IOC_DEGRADED_READDIR, 1);
> > ...
> >
> > should be quite easy. It would be a very ext3/4 specific thing,
> > though.
>
>
> That would work, even though it would be ext3/4 specific. What is the
> recommended programmatic way to detect if the file is on ext3/4 -- we would
> not want to attempt that blindly on a non-ext3/4 FS as the numerical value
> of EXT4_IOC_DEGRADED_READDIR might get interpreted in dangerous ways?
We must have been through this before, but: is the only way to generate
a collision-free readdir cookie really to use a larger hash?
Would it be possible to make something work like, for example, a 31-bit
hash plus an offset into a hash bucket?
I have trouble thinking about this, partly because I can't remember
where to find the requirements for readdir on concurrently modified
directories....
--b.
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, (continued)
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Myklebust, Trond, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, J. Bruce Fields, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Myklebust, Trond, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Dave Chinner, 2013/02/14
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Anand Avati, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Theodore Ts'o, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Joe Julian, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, J. Bruce Fields, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Theodore Ts'o, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Anand Avati, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies,
J. Bruce Fields <=
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Theodore Ts'o, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Anand Avati, 2013/02/13
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, J. Bruce Fields, 2013/02/14
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, J. Bruce Fields, 2013/02/14
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Dave Chinner, 2013/02/14
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, J. Bruce Fields, 2013/02/14
- Re: [Gluster-devel] regressions due to 64-bit ext4 directory cookies, Dave Chinner, 2013/02/14
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