Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: let's keep writing IOs on SBI_NEED_FSCK

[Chao Yu]

On 2021/7/15 7:18, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> SBI_NEED_FSCK is an indicator that fsck.f2fs needs to be triggered, so it
> is not fully critical to stop any IO writes. So, let's allow to write data
> instead of reporting EIO forever given SBI_NEED_FSCK.

Well, it looks we need to check why there is SBI_NEED_FSCK flag.

If this patch breaks something, how about forcing OPU if SBI_NEED_FSCK
was set?

> Fixes: 955772787667 ("f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> # v5.13+
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   fs/f2fs/segment.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> index 15cc89eef28d..f9b7fb785e1d 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> @@ -3563,7 +3563,7 @@ int f2fs_inplace_write_data(struct f2fs_io_info *fio)
>   		goto drop_bio;
>   	}
>   
> -	if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK) || f2fs_cp_error(sbi)) {
> +	if (f2fs_cp_error(sbi)) {
>   		err = -EIO;
>   		goto drop_bio;
>   	}