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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-snap.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-snap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c index 1da41229fbf2..854891d07b59 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -523,9 +523,12 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv) /* Metadata must only be loaded into one table at once */ r = s->store.read_metadata(&s->store); - if (r) { + if (r < 0) { ti->error = "Failed to read snapshot metadata"; goto bad6; + } else if (r > 0) { + s->valid = 0; + DMWARN("Snapshot is marked invalid."); } bio_list_init(&s->queued_bios); |