Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> writes: > On Tue 17-01-17 15:14:21, Vishal Verma wrote: >> Your note on the online repair does raise another tangentially related >> topic. Currently, if there are badblocks, writes via the bio submission >> path will clear the error (if the hardware is able to remap the bad >> locations). However, if the filesystem is mounted eith DAX, even >> non-mmap operations - read() and write() will go through the dax paths >> (dax_do_io()). We haven't found a good/agreeable way to perform >> error-clearing in this case. So currently, if a dax mounted filesystem >> has badblocks, the only way to clear those badblocks is to mount it >> without DAX, and overwrite/zero the bad locations. This is a pretty >> terrible user experience, and I'm hoping this can be solved in a better >> way. > > Please remind me, what is the problem with DAX code doing necessary work to > clear the error when it gets EIO from memcpy on write?
You won't get an MCE for a store; only loads generate them. Won't fallocate FL_ZERO_RANGE clear bad blocks when mounted with -o dax? Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
