From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263697AbUECOKW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 10:10:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263708AbUECOKW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 10:10:22 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:30667 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263697AbUECOKT (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 10:10:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:10:01 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Junfeng Yang , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mc@stanford.edu, Madanlal S Musuvathi , "David L. Dill" 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 Message-ID: <20040503141001.GA23656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20040427074455.GD30529@schnapps.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040427074455.GD30529@schnapps.adilger.int> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 April 2004 01:44:55 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Again a conscious decision. If a name is potentially inaccessible because > of an IO error it is better to allow the creation of a potentially duplicate > name than refuse creation of any new entries in the directory. It's a matter > of allowing the filesystem to be used as well as possible in the face of > failures vs. just giving up and refusing to do anything. Do you mind if I doubt the sanity of whoever made that decision? When my hard drive fails, I don't care about writing to the fs too much anymore, I want to *notice* the failure early and to *read* as much as possible, then put the drive on a pile for test hardware. But then again, that's just me. Jörn -- A surrounded army must be given a way out. -- Sun Tzu