Re: Issue #4588, part 1: FSFS access error

Stefan Fuhrmann wrote on Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 20:38:03 +0100:
> This post focuses on the FSFS issue. The good news is that
> confidence is high that the repo itself is correct and there
> has been no apparent data loss. The error message indicates
> that something like Offset=L2P[L2P[Item]] or Offset=L2P[Offset]
> instead of Offset=L2P[item] happened.
...
> The lookup would start with a hit at the L2 DAG cache, mapping
> path+rev onto a noderev. From there, everything is accessed
> using physical offsets until some item is not cached. At that
> point, we would be trying to use an Offset instead of the Item
> index to address the f7 data. Error.

So somehow we managed to cast an offset into an item. Can we make the
code more strongly-typed?

Where is the "L2 DAG cache" in the code? I assume it's
ffd->rev_node_cache, not fs_fs_dag_cache_t, correct?
Received on 2015-08-24 13:48:55 CEST