From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> The primary goal of this was to provide a mechanism for the filesystems to provide feedback to userspace but grew more than that. ENOSPC errors could be automated to delete temporary files etc. To handle error cases communicated, Filesystem utilities would need to be developed which would concentrate on fixing the error reported online. would concentrate on the errors communicated by the kernel and try to fix it. Once in place, this can be automated using udev scripts. This is done by adding kobject in the super_block which gets activated only if kset in the file_system_type is defined.. and hopefully works well with the lifetime of the super_block. Most filesystems are already performing this and keeping the kset so we can move this to the common location, in order to reduce code. As a implementation example, I have changed ocfs2 to support the change, though it is not completely feasible change because of the way directory are represented in kset, but it delivers the idea. An erroneous inode reported can be fixed by writing inode number to the sysfs file. This will check the inode and report the errors. The same inode can be written to finally fix the inode block. This can fix simple problems such as incorrect field information as opposed to complete block reference checks. Also, changed ext4 as an example. Changes: - Fixed kobject init and put -- Goldwyn -- 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
