Re: [PATCH] xfs: return -EINVAL instead of -EUCLEAN when mounting non-xfs

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 05:32:12PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> yeah, that should work; great minds think alike ;)  Our patches
> crossed in the ether I guess.
> 
> XFS uses EWRONGFS as an alias for EINVAL internally in these cases,
> so maybe we should stick with that for consistency, *shrug*

I keep thinking we should try expanding the number of errno's so that
the file system can give more fs-specific error codes, such that
eventually, user programs could print out error messages that would
make a lot more sense to users.  What we'd have to do is to define the
new errno's, and then wait for the new error_message() strings to
propagate out to a new glibc release, and only then have the kernel
start using the new errno values.  It would be a pain in the tuckus to
do, but in the long run the end result would be a lot better for end
users and system administrators.

                                        - Ted