UBIFS handling of erased page errors

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 23:59:16 PST 2015


On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:39 +1100, Iwo Mergler wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> 
> 
> thank you for the analysis of my unexpected lottery win. ;-)
> 
> I couldn't see a likely debugfs entry for in-the-gaps allocation,
> which one is it?

OK, there is no separate knob for this, but it could be added if needed.
Right now the feature is enabled with the 'chk_index' knob. This knob is
about extra index checks, which slow down the FS. But it also forces
'in-the-gaps' from time to time.

> I'll go and tell the customer to delete files occasionally.

Not sure about how deleting is helpful.

Artem.




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