On Thu 18-12-08 09:18:25, Simon Kirby wrote: > > we spotted a write error in filesystem metadata. If we spotted an error > > in data, we just complained but continued. This seems to be exactly the > > thing you are hitting. Latest Linus's tree (i.e. 2.6.28-rc5 or so) should > > have the patches that allow tuning the behavior in data=ordered mode - i.e. > > you can tell the filesystem by data_err=abort and data_err=ignore option > > whether it should abort the filesystem or ignore write error in fs data. > > Cool, but one question.. Can you think of a case where anyone would ever > want data_err=ignore? > > Should this really be a knob? Originally, we changed the behavior unconditionally but then someone came up with some reasonable argument why it should be tunable. I don't remember it exactly, sorry :). 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
