[sheepdog] [PATCH 4/4] dog: make repairing vdi optional

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 09:53:30 CEST 2013


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 04:49:18PM +0900, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> At Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:37:44 +0800,
> Liu Yuan wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:30:05AM +0200, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> > > Sorry guys if I intrude in this list.
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, form user point of view, it would be nice to have a
> > > "read only" check that could be run with a running vm.
> > > In case problems are reported, then the user could shutdown the guest
> > > when he can, and run the check "read write" (auto repair).
> > > 
> > > Similar to
> > > xfs_check -n <device>  (no repair)
> > > xfs_check <device> (repair)
> > > 
> > 
> > This looks reasonable to me.
> 
> Does it means that it's okay for you if auto-repar is disabled by
> default?  If we have a way to do online check, either is okay to me.

I think default to be disabled (safest option) looks fine to me. Can we simply
call it 'repair' instead of 'auto-repair'? I have no clue what 'auto' means when
I see it.

Thanks
Yuan



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