On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 06:20:27PM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote: > I fail to see why this is neccessary if you incorporate error reporting into the > sync_fs callback. Why is this separate from that callback? If you pickup Jeff's > patch that adds the 2nd flag to errseq for "observed", you should be able to > stash the first errseq seen in the ovl_fs struct, and do the check-and-return > in there instead instead of adding this new infrastructure. You still haven't explained why you want to add the "observed" flag.