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| author | Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> | 2007-07-12 18:28:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-13 00:01:08 +0200 |
| commit | 0764147b111b8ca886e4f2e9c9e019106b09b657 (patch) | |
| tree | 815c9d80c961d54c79692ebe4751318c9052ad45 /drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c | |
| parent | dm snapshot: fix invalidation deadlock (diff) | |
| download | linux-0764147b111b8ca886e4f2e9c9e019106b09b657.tar.xz linux-0764147b111b8ca886e4f2e9c9e019106b09b657.zip | |
dm snapshot: permit invalid activation
Allow invalid snapshots to be activated instead of failing.
This allows userspace to reinstate any given snapshot state - for
example after an unscheduled reboot - and clean up the invalid snapshot
at its leisure.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c b/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c index 8c25c2ff724a..3d65917a1bbb 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c @@ -489,11 +489,6 @@ static int persistent_read_metadata(struct exception_store *store) /* * Sanity checks. */ - if (!ps->valid) { - DMWARN("snapshot is marked invalid"); - return -EINVAL; - } - if (ps->version != SNAPSHOT_DISK_VERSION) { DMWARN("unable to handle snapshot disk version %d", ps->version); @@ -501,6 +496,12 @@ static int persistent_read_metadata(struct exception_store *store) } /* + * Metadata are valid, but snapshot is invalidated + */ + if (!ps->valid) + return 1; + + /* * Read the metadata. */ r = read_exceptions(ps); |