GFS2: Withdraw for IO errors writing to the journal or statfs
Before this patch, if GFS2 encountered IO errors while writing to the journal, it would not report the problem, so they would go unnoticed, sometimes for many hours. Sometimes this would only be noticed later, when recovery tried to do journal replay and failed due to invalid metadata at the blocks that resulted in IO errors. This patch makes GFS2's log daemon check for IO errors. If it encounters one, it withdraws from the file system and reports why in dmesg. A similar action is taken when IO errors occur when writing to the system statfs file. These errors are also reported back to any callers of fsync, since that requires the journal to be flushed. Therefore, any IO errors that would previously go unnoticed are now noticed and the file system is withdrawn as early as possible, thus preventing further file system damage. Also note that this reintroduces superblock variable sd_log_error, which Christoph removed with commit f729b66f. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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