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dm snapshot: permit invalid activation

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Allow invalid snapshots to be activated instead of failing.

This allows userspace to reinstate any given snapshot state - for
example after an unscheduled reboot - and clean up the invalid snapshot
at its leisure.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milan Broz
2007-07-12 17:28:13 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fcac03abd3
commit 0764147b11
2 changed files with 10 additions and 6 deletions
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drivers/md/dm-snap.c
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@@ -523,9 +523,12 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
/* Metadata must only be loaded into one table at once */
r = s->store.read_metadata(&s->store);
if (r) {
if (r < 0) {
ti->error = "Failed to read snapshot metadata";
goto bad6;
} else if (r > 0) {
s->valid = 0;
DMWARN("Snapshot is marked invalid.");
}
bio_list_init(&s->queued_bios);