Re: [PATCH 5/7] ext4: pass -ESHUTDOWN code to jbd2 layer

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 06:10:41PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Is it really correct that once the filesystem gets shutdown you clear the
> previous error from the journal? Because if we hit some real fs corruption,
> the journal gets aborted, and then someone calls ext4_shutdown(), we'd
> clear that error which looks like a bug to me because that shutdown hardly
> fixes the fs corruption...

That's not what the code does.  If journal->j_errno is set, then we
won't clear it, for precisely what concern you've articulated.

      	    	    	      	   	   - Ted




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