On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:07:04PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: ... > > Also, if you're going to keep this state in memory, what happens if > > the inode gets pushed out of memory? > > You lose the error, just like you do today with any other IO error. > > We had a lot of discussions on this when the memory error handling > was originally introduced, that was the conclusuion. > > I don't think a special panic knob for this makes sense either. > We already have multiple panic knobs for memory errors, that > can be used. Yes. I understand that adding a new knob is not good. So this patch uses the existing ext4 knob without adding new one. Thanks, Naoya -- 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
