Re: [PATCH] replaced BUG() with return -EIO from ext4_ext_get_blocks

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Hi Frank,

Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:02 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>   
>> My first thought was that this was a bandaid too, but I guess it can
>> come about due to on-disk corruption for any reason, so it should
>> be handled gracefully, and I suppose this approach seems fine.
>>     
>
> That's why we've been running with it, yes.
>
>   
>> Since this is catching on-disk corruption, though, it'd be better to call
>> ext4_error() and let the mount-time error-handling policy decide what to do.
>>
>> I like having more info but below seems awfully wordy ;)  Maybe the first
>> printk would suffice, and switching it to an ext4_error() would be best,
>> I think.
>>     
>
> Okay, I'll rework the patch a bit and resubmit it.
>   
Since I published this patch first against a reported upstream bug, I
will work on the comments and resubmit the patch!

Thanks for your comments !

Warm Regards,
Surbhi.
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