From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:14:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document change to log zeroing logic in xfs_repair.
X-Git-Tag: v2.0.0~10
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94bc4126bd90d0379dada851b7c6dc9a51792df5;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git

document change to log zeroing logic in xfs_repair.
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diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES
index aeb676910..411535882 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES
+++ b/doc/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ xfsprogs-1.3.17 (14 January 2002)
 	  driver signatures.
 	- xfs_repair fix to prevent double insertion into the
 	  uncertain_inode AVL trees ("avl_insert: duplicate range")
+	- xfs_repair fix if the log is corrupted and we can't find
+	  the head, don't exit - just proceed on with zeroing it
 	- use snprintf instead of sprintf throughout
 
 xfsprogs-1.3.16 (17 December 2001)
diff --git a/repair/phase2.c b/repair/phase2.c
index eda5806c9..4f3fb2d1e 100644
--- a/repair/phase2.c
+++ b/repair/phase2.c
@@ -65,8 +65,9 @@ zero_log(xfs_mount_t *mp)
 	log.l_mp = mp;
 
 	if ((error = xlog_find_tail(&log, &head_blk, &tail_blk, 0))) {
-		do_error("xlog_find_tail returned error %d\n", error);
-		return;
+		do_warn("zero_log: cannot find log head/tail "
+			"(xlog_find_tail=%d), zeroing it anyway\n",
+			error);
 	} else {
 		if (verbose) {
 			do_warn("zero_log: head block %lld tail block %lld\n",