On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:27:56PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:30 +0200, Christof Schmitt wrote: > > What is the best strategy to continue with the invalid guard tags on > > write requests? Should this be fixed in the filesystems? > > For write requests, as long as the page dirty bit is still set, it's > safe to drop the request, since it's already going to be repeated. What > we probably want is an error code we can return that the layer that sees > both the request and the page flags can make the call. I'm afraid this isn't entirely true. The FS tends to do this: change the page <---------> truck sized race right here where the page is clean mark the page dirty -chris -- 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
