Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [f2fs-dev] Multidevice f2fs mount after disk rearrangement | From | Chao Yu <> | Date | Wed, 8 Jan 2020 16:52:35 +0800 |
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On 2020/1/7 2:40, Oleksandr Natalenko via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote: > Hi. > > On 06.01.2020 19:34, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: >> Thank you for investigating this ahead of me. :) Yes, the device list >> is stored >> in superblock, so hacking it manually should work. >> >> Let me think about a tool to tune that. > > Thank you both for the replies. > > IIUC, tune.f2fs is not there yet. I saw a submission, but I do not see > it as accepted, right? > > Having this in tune.f2fs would be fine (assuming the assertion is > replaced with some meaningful hint message), but wouldn't it be more > convenient for an ordinary user to have implemented something like: > > # mount -t f2fs /dev/sdb -o nextdev=/dev/sdc /mnt/fs
Hmm... sounds reasonable, however, the risk is obvious, if we mount with wrong primary device, filesystem can be aware that with metadata sanity check, if we mount with wrong secondary/... devices by mistake (or intentionally, people may think filesystem should be aware illegal parameters....), filesystem won't be aware of that, then metadata/data will be inconsistent...
Although that may also happen when we use tunesb.f2fs, but fsck.f2fs can be followed to verify the modification of tunesb.f2fs, that would be much safer.
So I suggest we can do that in tools first, maybe implement nextdev mount option if we have added metadata in secondary/... device.
Thanks,
> > Hm? >
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