Re: [PATCH] ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> I think the real fix is to avoid clearing uptodate in case of io errors.
> For read io errors, the buffer/page should not have been uptodate to
> start with, and for write io errors, an error writing back the buffer
> does not mean it is somehow no longer the most uptodate copy of the data.
> 
> Higher level policy about IO errors (whether to retry, ignore, throw
> out the data, etc) would be nice to implement properly too, but that is
> not really the job of the low level cache and IO routines.
> 
> I proposed some patches a while back but didn't get much interest.
> Maybe I should just ask someone to merge them.

I am interested in fixing current releases. But I agree it should be handled
in a general way in future.
--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux