[dm-devel] [PATCH] fix hard-coded disk header chunk size for persistent snapshot

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka at redhat.com
Wed May 12 04:58:27 UTC 2010



On Wed, 12 May 2010, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:29:22AM +0900, Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:
> > This patch fixes hard-coded value for the size of a chunk that includes
> > disk header for persistent snapshot. It should be changed to existing
> > macro NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS instead of using hard-coded value 1.
>  
> Any more places too?  (E.g. persistent_commit_merge)
> 
> Alasdair

I think the expression in persistent_commit_merge should be changed to:
ps->next_free = area_location(ps, ps->current_area) +
                ps->current_committed + 1;

It is numerically the same, but will avoid trouble if 
NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS is increased.

Mikulas




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