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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Junfeng Yang <yjf@stanford.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mc@stanford.edu,
	Madanlal S Musuvathi <madan@stanford.edu>,
	"David L. Dill" <dill@cs.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [CHECKER] warnings in fs/ext3/namei.c (2.4.19) where disk read errors get ignored, causing non-empty dir to be deleted
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:59:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040503095947.GD468@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427074455.GD30529@schnapps.adilger.int>

Hi!

> > I'm not sure if they are real bugs or not, so your confirmations
> > /clarifications are appericated.
> 
> I don't consider this a bug, but rather a conscious decision on the part of
> the developers.  If you are trying to delete a directory and it has read
> errors, then it is better to let the unlink succeed than to refuse to unlink
> the directory.

Perhaps this should be documented with a comment?
Its rather subtle.
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-27  6:41 Junfeng Yang
2004-04-27  7:44 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2004-05-03  9:59   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-05-03 14:10   ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-03 16:16     ` Andreas Dilger
2004-05-03 17:33       ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-03 17:54         ` Andreas Dilger

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