On 04/02, Hagbard Celine wrote: > Hi, I lost the root filesystem on my previous install after a few > weeks of several power outages last winter. While trying to recover I > discovered that it seem fsck was never run properly during boot in the > lifetime of that install. > After getting the system installed again a while ago, I have been > trying to discern why. > So far I've found the following two possible issues: > > ISSUE 1: > If I boot with kernel option "ro rootfstype=f2fs > rootflags=background_gc=on,heap,disable_ext_identify,discard,user_xattr,inline_xattr,inline_dentry,acl,inline_data,flush_merge,data_flush,extent_cache,whint_mode=fs-based,fsync_mode=strict" > I get the following halfway trough boot: > > * Checking local filesystems ... > Info: Use default preen mode > Info: Mounted device! > Info: Check FS only due to RO > Error: Failed to open the device! > * Filesystems couldn't be fixed > > > [ !! ] * rc: Aborting! > > If i from this state try to mount another partition: > # mount -o > "ro,relatime,lazytime,background_gc=on,discard,heap,user_xattr,inline_xattr,acl,disable_ext_identify,inline_data,inline_dentry,flush_merge,extent_cache,data_flush,mode=adaptive,active_logs=6,whint_mode=fs-based,alloc_mode=default,fsync_mode=strict" > /dev/nvme0n1p7 /mnt/f2fstest/ > > I get the same error if I try to run fsck on it: > # fsck.f2fs /dev/nvme0n1p7 > Info: Mounted device! > Info: Check FS only due to RO > Error: Failed to open the device! > > If I on the other had boot with kernel option "rw rootfstype=f2fs > rootflags=background_gc=on,heap,disable_ext_identify,discard,user_xattr,inline_xattr,inline_dentry,acl,inline_data,flush_merge,data_flush,extent_cache,whint_mode=fs-based,fsync_mode=strict > panic=30 scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1" > > The boot does not hang and if I try same test as before, mount test partition: > # mount -o > "ro,relatime,lazytime,background_gc=on,discard,heap,user_xattr,inline_xattr,acl,disable_ext_identify,inline_data,inline_dentry,flush_merge,extent_cache,data_flush,mode=adaptive,active_logs=6,whint_mode=fs-based,alloc_mode=default,fsync_mode=strict" > /dev/nvme0n1p7 /mnt/f2fstest/ > > Run fsck: > # fsck.f2fs -f /dev/nvme0n1p7 > Info: Force to fix corruption > Info: Mounted device! > Info: Check FS only due to RO > Info: Segments per section = 1 > Info: Sections per zone = 1 > Info: sector size = 512 > Info: total sectors = 134101647 (65479 MB) > Info: MKFS version > "Linux version 5.0.5-gentoof2fsfix (root@40o2) (gcc version 8.2.0 > (Gentoo 8.2.0-r6 p1.7)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 1 17:04:41 +01 2019" > Info: FSCK version > from "Linux version 5.0.5-gentoo (root@40o2) (gcc version 8.2.0 > (Gentoo 8.2.0-r6 p1.7)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 2 07:42:40 +01 2019" > to "Linux version 5.0.5-gentoo (root@40o2) (gcc version 8.2.0 > (Gentoo 8.2.0-r6 p1.7)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 2 07:42:40 +01 2019" > Info: superblock features = 0 : > Info: superblock encrypt level = 0, salt = 00000000000000000000000000000000 > Info: total FS sectors = 134101640 (65479 MB) > Info: CKPT version = 70e1454a > Info: Checked valid nat_bits in checkpoint > Info: checkpoint state = 4c1 : large_nat_bitmap nat_bits crc unmount > > [FSCK] Unreachable nat entries [Ok..] [0x0] > [FSCK] SIT valid block bitmap checking [Ok..] > [FSCK] Hard link checking for regular file [Ok..] [0x70] > [FSCK] valid_block_count matching with CP [Ok..] [0x1fe244] > [FSCK] valid_node_count matcing with CP (de lookup) [Ok..] [0x6c487] > [FSCK] valid_node_count matcing with CP (nat lookup) [Ok..] [0x6c487] > [FSCK] valid_inode_count matched with CP [Ok..] [0x6c362] > [FSCK] free segment_count matched with CP [Ok..] [0x6c44] > [FSCK] next block offset is free [Ok..] > [FSCK] fixing SIT types > [FSCK] other corrupted bugs [Ok..] > > Done. > > So a system booted with "rw" root can fsck an "ro" filesystem but a > system booted with root "ro" can not. > > > ISSUE 2: > Referring to the output from the fsck running against a "ro" > filesystem, especially this line: > Info: Check FS only due to RO > > As far as i can tell this says that opposed to other filesystems > running fsck against a "ro" mounted f2fs partition will never fix any > errors. > So I tried running fsck against the same partition mounted "rw": > # mount -o remount,rw /mnt/f2fstest/ > # fsck.f2fs -f /dev/nvme0n1p7 > Info: Force to fix corruption > Info: Mounted device! > Error: Not available on mounted device! > > I might be misunderstanding something, but all this tells me that > unless one make a custom initramfs that runs fsck before root is > mounted (something no distributions has, as far as I know), fsck will > never fix an f2fs formatted root partition during boot. > If this is by design and not a bug/unintended behavior, it should be > documented somewhere least more people will experience system crashes > like mine. > > All tests above done with kernel 5.0.5 and f2fs-tools 1.12.0 with > "fsck.f2fs: allow to fsck readonly image w/ -f option"-patch by Chao > Yu.
Hi Hagbard, It looks like fsck.f2fs failed to open a device as RW on RO disk. Could you try this patch? Thanks, >From 3f18ff744f4d510d8e2f42c5a3b2539651baccc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaeg...@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:46:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fsck.f2fs: open ro disk if we want to check fs only This patch fixes the "open failure" issue on ro disk, reported by Hagbard. " If I boot with kernel option "ro rootfstype=f2fs I get the following halfway trough boot: * Checking local filesystems ... Info: Use default preen mode Info: Mounted device! Info: Check FS only due to RO Error: Failed to open the device! * Filesystems couldn't be fixed " Reported-by: Hagbard Celine <hagbardce...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaeg...@kernel.org> --- lib/libf2fs.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libf2fs.c b/lib/libf2fs.c index f8f6921..1a0d179 100644 --- a/lib/libf2fs.c +++ b/lib/libf2fs.c @@ -818,9 +818,16 @@ int get_device_info(int i) unsigned char model_inq[6] = {MODELINQUIRY}; #endif struct device_info *dev = c.devices + i; + int rw_flag; + + /* Check FS only */ + if (c.fix_on == 0 && c.auto_fix == 0) + rw_flag = O_RDONLY; + else + rw_flag = O_RDWR; if (c.sparse_mode) { - fd = open(dev->path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_BINARY, 0644); + fd = open(dev->path, rw_flag | O_CREAT | O_BINARY, 0644); if (fd < 0) { MSG(0, "\tError: Failed to open a sparse file!\n"); return -1; @@ -838,9 +845,9 @@ int get_device_info(int i) } if (S_ISBLK(stat_buf->st_mode) && !c.force) - fd = open(dev->path, O_RDWR | O_EXCL); + fd = open(dev->path, rw_flag | O_EXCL); else - fd = open(dev->path, O_RDWR); + fd = open(dev->path, rw_flag); } if (fd < 0) { MSG(0, "\tError: Failed to open the device!\n"); -- 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel