On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Suzuki K P wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >I think it's best not to change the current behaviour and let all > >partition checkers run, even if one of them failed due to device > >errors. I wouldn't mind if the behaviour changed like you propose, > >though. > > > At present, the partition checkers doesn't run, if one of the preceeding > checker has reported an error ! *But*, some of the checkers doesn't > report the I/O error which they came across! So, this may let others > run. Thats not we want, right. We would like them to return I/O errors, > and and the check_partition should let other partition checkers continue. Indeed, we want them to behave the same. I.e.: a partition checker should tell when it encounters an I/O error. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.nl -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html