On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:51:58PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > I disagree with upending 13 years of established precedent for user > visible behavior. We possibly could've pulled this off ten years ago, > but it's waaaay too late now. Too much work, too little gain. I remember the discussion; but now that we're adding it to uapi header files, it's really going to be impossible. And I have had some regrets about that decision ten years ago. I agree it would cause confusion if we do it now, but it's basically the our last opportunity. How about this then? We could ask glibc to change the string returned by strerror for EUCLEAN/EFSCORRUPTED to be something like "File system or block device corrupted". This is how the errno is used in the kernel; and if we don't want to change the error code, changing the string returned by glibc should be less problematic. - Ted
