[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH] block: xfs: dm thin: train XFS to give up on retrying IO if thinp is out of space

[Dave Chinner]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:08:36PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:09:23AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 01:47:53PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > | $ cat
> > > | /sys/fs/xfs/vda/meta_write_errors/enospc/transient_fail_at_umount
> > > | 1

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> You can just stop retrying the I/Os when the user attempts to unmount the 
> filesystem - then, you don't need any configuration option.

See above - the default will do that, but there are users who do not
want that unmount behaviour....

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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