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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c index 341ab737f9c5..8a7d9557897c 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c +++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/nlinks.c @@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ xchk_setup_nlinks( * set the INCOMPLETE flag even when a negative errno is returned. This care * must be taken with certain errno values (i.e. EFSBADCRC, EFSCORRUPTED, * ECANCELED) that are absorbed into a scrub state flag update by - * xchk_*_process_error. + * xchk_*_process_error. Scrub and repair share the same incore data + * structures, so the INCOMPLETE flag is critical to prevent a repair based on + * insufficient information. * * Because we are scanning a live filesystem, it's possible that another thread * will try to update the link counts for an inode that we've already scanned. |