On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:07:14PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > This was quite a long time ago but it seems nobody replied yet :). Thanks :) > What kernel version is this? Originally, we aborted a journal only if At the time, this was 2.6.26.5. > 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? Simon- -- 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
