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After a succession of rename operations of different files and fsyncing one of them, such that each file gets a new name that corresponds to an old name of another file, we can end up with a log that will cause a failure when attempted to replay at mount time (an EEXIST error). We currently have correct behaviour when such succession of renames involves only two files, but if there are more files involved, we end up not logging all the inodes that are needed, therefore resulting in a failure when attempting to replay the log. Example: $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb $ mount /dev/sdb /mnt $ mkdir /mnt/testdir $ touch /mnt/testdir/fname1 $ touch /mnt/testdir/fname2 $ sync $ mv /mnt/testdir/fname1 /mnt/testdir/fname3 $ mv /mnt/testdir/fname2 /mnt/testdir/fname4 $ ln /mnt/testdir/fname3 /mnt/testdir/fname2 $ touch /mnt/testdir/fname1 $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/testdir/fname1 <power failure> $ mount /dev/sdb /mnt mount: mount /dev/sdb on /mnt failed: File exists So fix this by checking all inode dependencies when logging an inode. That is, if one logged inode A has a new name that matches the old name of some other inode B, check if inode B has a new name that matches the old name of some other inode C, and so on. This fix is implemented not by doing any recursive function calls but by using an iterative method using a linked list that is used in a first-in-first-out fashion. A test case for fstests follows soon. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.