On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote: > Yeah, from what you write, it looks like USB enclosure is at fault (or it > could still be your USB controller but I doubt it). It's still a bit > bothering that the error reported by the drive was not properly propagated > up to VFS. Either it's some block layer retry/ignore magic that I missed or > we ignore errors from block layer in some place. Is there any interest in tracking this down? It's not hard to find out what low-level errors are being reported and to generate them on demand with an emulated USB disk drive. Alan Stern -- 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