This fixes an issue where running out of data space would cause the
thin-pool's metadata to become read-only. There was no reason to make
metadata read-only -- calling set_pool_mode() with PM_READ_ONLY was a
misguided way to error all queued and future write IOs. We can
accomplish the same by degrading from PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE to
PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE with error_if_no_space enabled.
Otherwise, the use of PM_READ_ONLY could cause a race where commit() was
started before the PM_READ_ONLY transition but dm_pool_commit_metadata()
would go on to fail because the block manager had transitioned to
read-only. The return of -EPERM from dm_pool_commit_metadata(), due to
attempting to commit while in read-only mode, caused the thin-pool to
set 'needs_check' because a metadata_operation_failed(). This needless
cascade of failures makes life for users more difficult than needed.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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