Hi, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:43:57 +0900 > Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>In ordered mode, we should abort journaling when an I/O error has >>occurred on a file data buffer in the committing transaction. > > Why should we do that? Aborting the journal leads the filesystem to read-only state, and it can prevent inconsistent state in file data from diffusing furthermore. I think it makes sense for ordered mode users; they don't want to lose file updates as much as possible, but they don't want to do fsync. Thanks, -- Hidehiro Kawai Hitachi, Systems Development Laboratory Linux Technology Center -- 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
