On Mon 02-06-08 19:48:41, Hidehiro Kawai wrote: > Subject: [PATCH 5/5] ext3: abort ext3 if the journal has aborted > > If the journal has aborted due to a checkpointing failure, we > have to keep the contents of the journal space. ext3_put_super() > detects the journal abort, then it invokes ext3_abort() to make > the filesystem read only and keep needs_recovery flag. > > Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> ... > @@ -2373,7 +2374,13 @@ static void ext3_write_super_lockfs(stru > > /* Now we set up the journal barrier. */ > journal_lock_updates(journal); > - journal_flush(journal); > + > + /* > + * We don't want to clear needs_recovery flag when we failed > + * to flush the journal. > + */ > + if (journal_flush(journal) < 0) > + return; > > /* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */ > EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER); It's a bit scary that LVM will start creating filesystem snapshot when journal_flush() failed but since there's no way to propagate error further up, I guess we cannot do anything better. You can add: Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html