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dm snapshot: permit invalid activation
authorMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:28:13 +0000 (17:28 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:01:08 +0000 (15:01 -0700)
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>
drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c
drivers/md/dm-snap.c

index 8c25c2f..3d65917 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
index 1da4122..854891d 100644 (file)
@@ -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);