No driver returns ENODEV from it bio completion handler, not has this ever been documented. Remove the dead code dealing with it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-07-28 17:22:27.277106627 +0200 +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-07-28 17:24:19.016501283 +0200 @@ -122,17 +122,6 @@ xfs_destroy_ioend( bh->b_end_io(bh, !ioend->io_error); } - /* - * Volume managers supporting multiple paths can send back ENODEV - * when the final path disappears. In this case continuing to fill - * the page cache with dirty data which cannot be written out is - * evil, so prevent that. - */ - if (unlikely(ioend->io_error == -ENODEV)) { - xfs_do_force_shutdown(ip->i_mount, SHUTDOWN_DEVICE_REQ, - __FILE__, __LINE__); - } - xfs_ioend_wake(ip); mempool_free(ioend, xfs_ioend_pool); } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs