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xfs: growfs: use uncached buffers for new headers
When writing the new AG headers to disk, we can't attach write verifiers because they have a dependency on the struct xfs-perag being attached to the buffer to be fully initialised and growfs can't fully initialise them until later in the process. The simplest way to avoid this problem is to use uncached buffers for writing the new headers. These buffers don't have the xfs-perag attached to them, so it's simple to detect in the write verifier and be able to skip the checks that need the xfs-perag. This enables us to attach the appropriate buffer ops to the buffer and hence calculate CRCs on the way to disk. IT also means that the buffer is torn down immediately, and so the first access to the AG headers will re-read the header from disk and perform full verification of the buffer. This way we also can catch corruptions due to problems that went undetected in growfs. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by Rich Johnston <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <[email protected]>
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