Re: [f2fs-dev] Multidevice f2fs mount after disk rearrangement

[Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>]

On 01/06, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the report. :)
> 
> On 2020/1/5 5:52, Oleksandr Natalenko via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On 04.01.2020 17:29, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> >> I was brave enough to create f2fs filesystem spanning through 2
> >> physical device using this command:
> >>
> >> # mkfs.f2fs -t 0 /dev/sdc -c /dev/sdd
> >>
> >> It worked fine until I removed /dev/sdb from my system, so f2fs devices 
> >> became:
> >>
> >> /dev/sdc -> /dev/sdb
> >> /dev/sdd -> /dev/sdc
> >>
> >> Now, when I try to mount it, I get the following:
> >>
> >> # mount -t f2fs /dev/sdb /mnt/fs
> >> mount: /mnt/fs: mount(2) system call failed: No such file or directory.
> >>
> >> In dmesg:
> >>
> >> [Jan 4 17:25] F2FS-fs (sdb): Mount Device [ 0]:             /dev/sdc,
> >>   59063,        0 -  1cd6fff
> >> [  +0,000024] F2FS-fs (sdb): Failed to find devices
> >>
> >> fsck also fails with the following assertion:
> >>
> >> [ASSERT] (init_sb_info: 908) !strcmp((char *)sb->devs[i].path, (char
> >> *)c.devices[i].path)
> >>
> >> Am I doing something obviously stupid, and the device path can be
> >> (somehow) changed so that the mount succeeds, or this is unfixable,
> >> and f2fs relies on persistent device naming?
> >>
> >> Please suggest.
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> > 
> > Erm, fine. I studied f2fs-tools code a little bit and discovered that 
> > superblock indeed had /dev/sdX paths saved as strings. So I fired up 
> > hexedit and just changed the superblock directly on the first device, 
> > substituting sdc with sdb and sdd with sdc (I did it twice; I guess 
> > there are 2 copies of superblock), and after this the mount worked.
> 
> Alright, it works if superblock checksum feature is off...
> 
> > 
> > Am I really supposed to do this manually ;)?
> 
> We'd better add that ability in tune.f2fs. And I guess we need to let
> kernel/fsck to notice that case, and give hint to run tune.f2fs to
> reconfigure primary/secondary/... device paths.

I'm thinking to add tunesb.f2fs to edit superblock explicitly, since it has
to edit it without getting superblock/checkpoint and other f2fs metadata.

For example,
# tunesb.f2fs -c /dev/sdb -c /dev/sdc /dev/sda
.. superblock info ..
.. device list ..
.. hot/cold extensions ..

Will modify the device list, if it's different from parameter.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> >